Please could **Geany** highlight the **var** keyword in Java?
I don't understand your image:
1. it does not use `var` 2. the class `Var` is highlighted correctly
Oracle says `var is a reserved type name, not a keyword` so not sure how its meant to be highlighted.
@elextr not sure where you found the info, all I can find myself is that it'd be a "contextual keyword": https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se21/html/jls-3.html#jls-3.9
I don't understand your image:
1. it does not use `var`
There is on line 3 :wink:
@b4n, the highlighted text was copied from part way down [this](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/22/language/local-variable-type-infer...) page (about para 4). Making it a predefined typename is how "contextuality" is implemented I guess, as it is a typename it makes `var i = 10;` be a declaration, and act like C++ `auto i = 10;` but where a typename is not expected its a variable name eg `var var = "var";` :grin:
As the rest of the sentence I copied says `which means that existing code that uses var as a variable, method, or package name is not affected.`
So with the contextless lexer implementation those cases can't be disambiguated from `var` as a type, so both are correct, pick one for highlighting. [no right answer]
There is on line 3 😉
Ooops, hidden by the { [end excuse]
Closed #3854 as completed via #4014.
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