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Broken syntax highlighting when the default import is named "from"

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with the TypeScript snippet import from from './from'; in the TS and JS Grammar Extension. Inspect the grammar rules that classify imports and the identifier from; it is done when this valid statement receives correct syntax highlighting without regressing ordinary imports.

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Description

Effort: Difficult limitation

TS and JS Grammar Extension version: latest

Code

import from from './from';

Visual output

Screen Shot 2021-11-05 at 15 18 51

If the name assigned to the default export is "from" then it gets highlighted improperly.

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TypeScript
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