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C# Syntax Highlighting Bug for Tuples & Multilined Variables

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the C# syntax-highlighting grammar used by the dotnet/csharp-tmLanguage project and reproduce the examples in VS Code 1.61. Compare the token scopes for multiline variable declarations and tuple assignments; done means the affected identifiers receive the expected scopes in both examples.

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Description

Originally from @AharonSambol in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/135031

Details

What editor are you seeing the problem in? (e.g. Atom, Visual Studio Code, etc.)
VS Code

What version of the editor are you using?
1.61

What color theme are you using?
N/A as the issue is with the scopes that the tokens are getting.

Repro

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Steps to reproduce:
Open a blank C# project and paste the following code:

public class ExClass {

    public static int correctColor; // example for correct color
    public static int 
    value1, value2; // example for incorrect color (should be light blue not white)
}
public class Program {
    void Func(){
        ExClass.value1 = 1; // example for correct color
        (ExClass.value1, ExClass.value2) = (1,2); // example for incorrect color (ExClass should be light blue not white)
    }
}

The type of the variables doesn't matter.

VS Code version: Code 1.61.0 (ee8c7def80afc00dd6e593ef12f37756d8f504ea, 2021-10-07T18:13:09.652Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19043
Restricted Mode: No

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opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
skia_renderer: enabled_on
video_decode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
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Load (avg) undefined
Memory (System) 15.92GB (9.33GB free)
Process Argv --crash-reporter-id b5a2ba25-e8a3-43d1-af6e-d42f94d5c410
Screen Reader no
VM 0%
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