A method is more in keeping with the rest of the Writer API and
incidentally allows the comment error to be reported earlier.

Fixes #22737.

Change-Id: I1eee2103a0720c76d0c394ccd6541e6219996dc0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/79415
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Joe Tsai <thebrokentoaster@gmail.com>