laravel is commenting out my view doctype

Question

For reasons I don't understand, Laravel seems to be commenting out the doctype tag at the top of my view file:

<!--?php<!DOCTYPE html-->
<html lang="en">

This is causing the browser to incorrectly render the page.

The view file looks like so:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="{{ App::getLocale() }}">

There is no whitespace above the doctype.

I have confirmed the problem in Safari and Chrome.

Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Fixed the problem, for anyone interested.

I had a blank api.php file and it caused problems. Adding a comment fixed it.