diff --git a/phpBB/includes/functions_template.php b/phpBB/includes/functions_template.php
index 0d8a39eaee..c7c7ac1215 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/functions_template.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/functions_template.php
@@ -86,16 +86,9 @@ class template_compile
 	}
 
 	/**
-	* Straight-forward strategy: use PHP's tokenizer to escape everything that
-	* looks like a PHP tag.
-	*
-	* We open/close PHP tags at the beginning of the template to clearly indicate
-	* that we are in HTML mode. If we find a PHP tag, we escape it then we reiterate
-	* over the whole file. That can become quite slow if the file is stuffed with
-	* <?php tags, but there's only so much we can do.
-	*
-	* Known issue: templates need to be rechecked everytime the value of the php.ini
-	* settings asp_tags or short_tags are changed
+	* Remove any PHP tags that do not belong, these regular expressions are derived from
+	* the ones that exist in zend_language_scanner.l
+	* @access private
 	*/
 	function remove_php_tags(&$code)
 	{