But I want to have comment popup link on single posts/pages

In the description for the comments_popup_link function, it is stated: “Is not meant to be displayed on single posts and pages. Should be used on the lists of posts”. I, however, like to be able to use the comments_popup_link on single posts and pages, because I do not display comments inline with single posts. Therefore, I have always done a small hack to allow this:

“comment-template.php” lines 723-724:
// if ( is_single() || is_page() )
// return;

Problem solved, but every time I upgrade I have to redo this fix. So I’d like it if this code change were made permanent, or failing that, if there were a more graceful way for me to make this change.

Also, who decided that nobody would want to put comment popup links on posts or single pages? It seems silly to even have that conditional check in there.

Thoughts?