diff --git a/xo-tokenizer/include/xo/tokenizer/input_state.hpp b/xo-tokenizer/include/xo/tokenizer/input_state.hpp
index bd321382..ca5ace33 100644
--- a/xo-tokenizer/include/xo/tokenizer/input_state.hpp
+++ b/xo-tokenizer/include/xo/tokenizer/input_state.hpp
@@ -49,16 +49,16 @@ namespace xo {
             /** capture prefix of @p input up to first newline **/
             void capture_current_line(const span_type & input);
 
-            /** reset input state for start of next line **/
+            /** Reset input state for start of next line.
+             *  Expression parser may use this to discard remainder of input line
+             *  after a parsing error.
+             **/
             void discard_current_line();
 
             void consume(size_t z) { current_pos_ += z; }
 
             const CharT * skip_leading_whitespace(const span_type & input);
 
-        private:
-            //void reset_whitespace() { whitespace_ = 0; }
-
         private:
             /** remember current input line.  Used only to report errors **/
             span<const CharT> current_line_ = span<const CharT>();