TextMate tokenizer enters incorrect scope after typeof a < "u" in JavaScript, affecting subsequent function declarations

[soeyu]

VS Code Version

Version: 1.124.2 (user setup)
Commit: 6928394f91b684055b873eecb8bc281365131f1c
Date: 2026-06-12T00:12:36Z
Electron: 42.2.0
ElectronBuildId: 14159160
Chromium: 148.0.7778.97
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.8.178.14-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Fresh install of VS Code with all default settings. No extensions installed, no custom configuration applied.
Also reproduced on VS Code for the Web (vscode.dev) with no extensions or custom configuration.

Reproducible Example

function bar() {
  return "bar";
}

var a = typeof a < "u";

function foo() {
  return "foo";
}

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install VS Code with all default settings (no extensions, no custom configuration).
2. Create a new .js file.
3. Paste the code above.
4. Run:

Developer: Inspect Editor Tokens and Scopes

5. Inspect the first function keyword (bar declaration).
6. Inspect the second function keyword (foo declaration).

Actual Result

The first function declaration is tokenized correctly:

storage.type.function.js
meta.function.js
source.js

The second function declaration is tokenized incorrectly:

entity.name.type.js
meta.type.parameters.js
meta.var.expr.js
source.js

Syntax highlighting becomes incorrect for all code following:

var a = typeof a < "u";

Expected Result

The second function declaration should receive the same scopes as the first:

storage.type.function.js
meta.function.js
source.js

No tokenizer state should leak past the end of the variable declaration.

Additional Investigation

Replacing:

var a = typeof a < "u";

with:

var a = typeof a > "u";

immediately fixes the issue. The second `function` is then correctly scoped as:

Notes

• Reproduced on a fresh VS Code install with all default settings and no extensions.
• Reproduced across all built-in themes; the issue is not theme-specific.
• The JavaScript is syntactically valid.

[mohityadav8]

/assign
can i work on this

[RedCMD]

should report to the upstream grammar repo https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-TmLanguage

this should be fixable
otherwise it can be mitigated by adding a bunch of safeguards to type to stop it from going past brackets ) and semicolons ; etc

tho why are you trying to do this?
typeof a < "u"
is there a real world example that's bothering you?