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Syntax highlighting broken in lambda after type statement without semicolon

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
devtools, tooling

Research direction

Open the linked TypeScript Playground and reproduce the highlighting difference in VS Code 1.61.2 using the provided lambda and type declarations. Inspect the TextMate grammar behavior and scope/token output around the type statement without a semicolon. Done means type and const receive the same highlighting inside and outside the lambda without requiring a semicolon.

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Description

Bug Report

🔎 Search Terms

syntax highlight semicolon lambda

🕗 Version & Regression Information
  • This is not a bug with the compiler
  • This is a VSCode syntax highlighting bug
  • VSCode Version 1.61.2
Version: 1.61.2 (user setup)
Commit: 6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643
Date: 2021-10-19T14:57:20.575Z
Electron: 13.5.1
Chrome: 91.0.4472.164
Node.js: 14.16.0
V8: 9.1.269.39-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19043
⏯ Playground Link

Playground link with relevant code

💻 Code
declare function doFoo(arg: any): void

type A = number
doFoo(() => {
    type B = number
    const b = 5
})
const a = 1
🙁 Actual behavior

type and const get colored oddly inside the lambda.

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Notice that the colors are different in and out of the lambda.

Scope/token debugging:

image

🙂 Expected behavior

The syntax highlighting should look like this:

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Notice that colors are the same in and out of the lambda. I added a semicolon in this case to the type statement to workaround the issue.

Scope/token debugging:

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