diff --git a/src/compiler/binder.ts b/src/compiler/binder.ts
index 9f7f36d10d..a0e177e765 100644
--- a/src/compiler/binder.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/binder.ts
@@ -386,10 +386,10 @@ module ts {
 
         function declareSymbolAndAddToSymbolTableWorker(node: Declaration, symbolFlags: SymbolFlags, symbolExcludes: SymbolFlags): Symbol {
             switch (container.kind) {
-                // Modules, source files, and classes need specialized handling for how their 
+                // Modules, source files, and classes need specialized handling for how their
                 // members are declared (for example, a member of a class will go into a specific
-                // symbol table depending on if it is static or not). As such, we defer to 
-                // specialized handlers to take care of declaring these child members.
+                // symbol table depending on if it is static or not). We defer to specialized
+                // handlers to take care of declaring these child members.
                 case SyntaxKind.ModuleDeclaration:
                     return declareModuleMember(node, symbolFlags, symbolExcludes);
 
@@ -407,9 +407,10 @@ module ts {
                 case SyntaxKind.ObjectLiteralExpression:
                 case SyntaxKind.InterfaceDeclaration:
                     // Interface/Object-types always have their children added to the 'members' of
-                    // their container.  They are only accessible through an instance of their 
-                    // container, and are never in scope otherwise (even inside the body of the 
-                    // object / type / interface declaring them).
+                    // their container. They are only accessible through an instance of their
+                    // container, and are never in scope otherwise (even inside the body of the
+                    // object / type / interface declaring them). An exception is type parameters,
+                    // which are in scope without qualification (similar to 'locals').
                     return declareSymbol(container.symbol.members, container.symbol, node, symbolFlags, symbolExcludes);
 
                 case SyntaxKind.FunctionType:
@@ -427,10 +428,10 @@ module ts {
                 case SyntaxKind.ArrowFunction:
                 case SyntaxKind.TypeAliasDeclaration:
                     // All the children of these container types are never visible through another
-                    // symbol (i.e. through another symbol's 'exports' or 'members').  Instead, 
-                    // they're only accessed 'lexically' (i.e. from code that exists underneath 
+                    // symbol (i.e. through another symbol's 'exports' or 'members').  Instead,
+                    // they're only accessed 'lexically' (i.e. from code that exists underneath
                     // their container in the tree.  To accomplish this, we simply add their declared
-                    // symbol to the 'locals' of the container.  These symbols can then be found as 
+                    // symbol to the 'locals' of the container.  These symbols can then be found as
                     // the type checker walks up the containers, checking them for matching names.
                     return declareSymbol(container.locals, undefined, node, symbolFlags, symbolExcludes);
             }