Local variables declaration: Type keywords are not highlighted if the identifiers are on the next line

[DustinCampbell]

From @heshuimu on May 9, 2017 22:32

Environment data

dotnet --info output:
VS Code version: 1.12.1
C# Extension version: 1.9.0

Steps to reproduce

Copied from original issue: dotnet/vscode-csharp#1468

[DustinCampbell]

I'm marking this as a bug for now. However, there may not be much we can do about the issue. VS Code colorization is handled by scanning a document line-by-line using regular expressions. This provides colorization that is generally "good enough", but won't every be perfect. If there's not enough information on a single line to identify a particular construct, it's unlikely that it will be colorized precisely.

[wise0704]

This is impossible to fix. The only way to fix it is by using begin end, but then there's no way to differentiate between:

Foo  // type
  a, b;

and

Foo  // method
  ();

since once begin is captured, there's no way to backtrack it out and choose a different pattern.

This should instead be left to the semantic highlighting to handle.