Java syntax coloring looks wrong

[nickdos]

Hi All,

Is the following the expected syntax coloring for Java code?

It looks buggy to me - weird single letter color changes, and nothing like what VSCode, IntelliJ or TextMate provide.

Using a light theme is even worse as the different red/purple colors are indistinguishable.

[antonreshetov]

I'm not familiar with Java, but I think you're missing semicolons, which is why the syntax highlighting is broken. Although as I understand in Java semicolons are not required, nevertheless it seems to be the way .tmLanguage was described for Java.

[nickdos]

Thanks - that would be it. I had this snippet from ages ago and I now recall it was from Grails, which is Groovy based.

Thespock.lang.Specification triggered me into assuming it was Java.