Very interesting! I had not considered this. The issue would be identifying such a case since comments can be in many different forms:
--@my_unused_parameter
-- @my_unused_parameter
-- need to clean this up one day! -> @my_unused_parameter
/* @my_unused_parameter */
/*
@my_unused_parameter
*/
Etc... You've given me some food for thought. Thanks for sharing! 🙂