Every higher level language has directives nowadays, and those almost every time encoded in comments.
Honestly, between documentation, compiler pragmas, linter directives, packaging and linking instructions, and etc, we are getting into a point where languages will need to specify something like "comments starting with this string must be ignored".
Honestly, between documentation, compiler pragmas, linter directives, packaging and linking instructions, and etc, we are getting into a point where languages will need to specify something like "comments starting with this string must be ignored".