php open/close tags ignored within C-style comments

Description

[The following code:

<?php

echo (ob_start()?'':'') 
. 
/* 
?> 
hello world 
<?php 
*/ 
ob_get_clean()
,
PHP_EOL
;

Resulted in this output:

But I expected this output instead:

hello world

](https://3v4l.org/OkFOE)

The open/close tags should have precedence over the comments or at least, it should be better described in manual page.

According to the php tags manual page, telling:

When PHP parses a file, it looks for opening and closing tags, which are which tell PHP to start and stop interpreting the code between them.

PHP does not obey this rule, as it rather considers the text between tags as part of comment, which is, however, rather part of interpreted php code instead of part of not interpreted text.

PHP Version

ALL

Operating System

No response

Start with the linked PHP tags manual page and the provided C-style-comment reproduction. Review the comment thread and verify whether the documented parsing behavior or the implementation is intended to change; done means the issue has a clear resolution and the manual accurately describes the interaction.