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Why not realize "//" which can also be a description?

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Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
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Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
documentation

Research direction

The issue asks whether // comments should also be treated as descriptions, alongside the shown block-comment form. Locate the comment-parsing entry point and existing description coverage, then consider the work complete when the intended text from // comments is extracted without regressing block-comment handling.

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Description

"
/**
*
*/
"
this can be regarded as a description. How about "//" ?

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