[PHP] Syntax highlighting does not recognize code comments in some cases

[FeBe95]

I came across these lines of code in our repo:

$test = DB::table('test')
    // ->select('foo')
    ->select('bar');

Obviously, // ->select('foo') should be highlighted as a comment here. After trying out different code snippets, I came to the conclusion that the highlighter doesn't like comments after a line without a semicolon at the end.

An MRE could look like this:

$foo = 'foo'
// comment
;

More examples of this issue:

$bar= 'bar'
/* comment */
;

$baz = 'baz'/*
comment
*/
;

For reference, this is how the code snippets look in PhpStorm:

[FeBe95]

I just read docs/troubleshooting.md - There's a problem with the syntax highlighting of a file, so I guess this is not the correct place to report this issue. I will report it to the PHP syntax highlighter instead.

[FeBe95]

For reference:

• PHP syntax highlighter: tree-sitter/tree-sitter-php
• Related issue: bug: comment not recognized inside binary expression tree-sitter/tree-sitter-php#223
• Release that fixed the issue: Release v0.22.2 · tree-sitter/tree-sitter-php (released Feb 25)