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On 2010-03-18 13:14:24 -0700, dnquark said:

> What determines whether or not parentheses that are part of comments
> are included when performing paren matching?..  For instance, in C
> mode, both
>   // (
>   // )
> and
>   foo //(
>   bar //)
> are reported as mismatched parentheses. Similar behavior is observed
> in lisp mode.
> 
> Is there a way to make emacs ignore all parentheses that are parts of
> comments?..  This behavior sometimes breaks hs-minor-mode's ability to
> fold code in buffers.

Yes - I get hit by this in verilog-mode all the time!  I'd love to have 
it ignore parans in comments.