I'm writing a whitepaper and realized that I am not sure what the official term is for the kind of internal documentation that we put as a comment block before a declaration of definition.
The same thing that eventually becomes JavaDoc member documentation.
It's not simply internal documentation, and I'm not sure "header documentation" would be a good term.
Note that I'm looking for a general term, not one specific to a particular language (e.g., Java/Perl)