[TypeScript] Incorrect grammar syntax highlighting

[talks2much]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: YES

Hi! I was coding with my friend and noticed a few locations in his code, where it was incorrectly highlighted. It seems TS server doesn't affect the highlighting.

Version: 1.73.0-insider Commit: 3544aabd5a2b0da2cd3a6f3fa3f00759aa9d9709 Date: 2022-10-27T21:27:43.984Z Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/107.0.1418.26

You can reproduce any of these examples on https://vscode.dev. I tried to narrow down all cases and minimize the code required to reproduce, however I can link original full files if needed. Probably some of these cases were already covered by other issues that I failed to find.

Also you most probably would see the difference between GitHub's and VSCode highlighting.

iconType = type as any

Highlighting should be same as for other names like type1, also it fails only when reassigning, eg when used with const works fine.

Any type typed after as should not be highlighted white

---

export interface FeatureControl {
    enableCompletionProvider?:
    string
    | {
        processCompletions?(completion: CustomCompletionItem): vsc.CompletionItem[]
    }
}

export interface RegisterLanguageSupportOptions {
    /** handle requesting position in document */
    pathAutoRename?: {
        glob: string
        isSpecCanBeUsed?(specName): boolean | string
    }
}

export interface API {
}

Works fine, if you reposition or remove first | (usually Prettier likes to position it as demonstrated above!)

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type A = B
if (a) const b = a as never

It also seems to be 100% valid and common case, but the highlighting of statements like if or for without semicolon after type declaration goes with type color.