diff --git a/Zend/tests/type_declarations/intersection_types/parsing.phpt b/Zend/tests/type_declarations/intersection_types/parsing.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1825dbe4745ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Zend/tests/type_declarations/intersection_types/parsing.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+--TEST--
+Intersection type parsing interaction with comments
+--FILE--
+<?php
+
+class Test {
+    function f1(A & /*
+        Comment / comment */ B $p) {}
+    function f2(A & // Comment
+        B $p) {}
+    function f3(A & # Comment
+        B $p) {}
+    function f4(A & #
+        B $p) {}
+    function f6(A & /*
+        Comment / comment */ $p) {}
+    function f7(A & // Comment
+        $p) {}
+    function f8(A & # Comment
+        $p) {}
+    function f9(A & #
+        $p) {}
+}
+
+?>
+--EXPECTF--
diff --git a/Zend/tests/type_declarations/intersection_types/parsing_attribute.phpt b/Zend/tests/type_declarations/intersection_types/parsing_attribute.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7997435b7b2f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Zend/tests/type_declarations/intersection_types/parsing_attribute.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--TEST--
+Intersection type parsing interaction with attributes
+--FILE--
+<?php
+
+class Test {
+    public X& #[Comment]
+        Z $p4;
+}
+
+?>
+--EXPECTF--
+Parse error: syntax error, unexpected token "#[" in %s on line %d
diff --git a/Zend/zend_language_scanner.l b/Zend/zend_language_scanner.l
index c73a50948d6bc..6adc00a44fcbf 100644
--- a/Zend/zend_language_scanner.l
+++ b/Zend/zend_language_scanner.l
@@ -1368,6 +1368,11 @@ TABS_AND_SPACES [ \t]*
 TOKENS [;:,.|^&+-/*=%!~$<>?@]
 ANY_CHAR [^]
 NEWLINE ("\r"|"\n"|"\r\n")
+OPTIONAL_WHITESPACE [ \n\r\t]*
+MULTI_LINE_COMMENT "/*"([^"*"]*"*"+)"/"
+SINGLE_LINE_COMMENT "//".*[\n\r]
+HASH_COMMENT "#"(([^"["].*[\n\r])|[\n\r])
+OPTIONAL_WHITESPACE_AND_COMMENTS ({OPTIONAL_WHITESPACE}|{MULTI_LINE_COMMENT}|{SINGLE_LINE_COMMENT}|{HASH_COMMENT})*
 
 /* compute yyleng before each rule */
 <!*> := yyleng = YYCURSOR - SCNG(yy_text);
@@ -1869,7 +1874,7 @@ NEWLINE ("\r"|"\n"|"\r\n")
 	RETURN_TOKEN(T_SR);
 }
 
-<ST_IN_SCRIPTING>"&"[ \t\r\n]*("$"|"...") {
+<ST_IN_SCRIPTING>"&"{OPTIONAL_WHITESPACE_AND_COMMENTS}("$"|"...") {
 	yyless(1);
 	RETURN_TOKEN(T_AMPERSAND_FOLLOWED_BY_VAR_OR_VARARG);
 }