Imports whose name contains "color" cause Syntax error

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In GitLab by @micycle1 on Aug 9, 2021, 15:10

Description

Imports whose name contains "color" cause a syntax error since Processing interprets these as the color datatype.

Your Environment

• Processing version: 4.0 Beta 1
• Operating System and OS version: Windows 10

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Created by: benfry

Hm, that's unfortunate, though I'm not sure it's a bug—does that work with int, float, or any other primitive types? color is what's considered a “reserved word” in the language.

(Edited to add: if it was working in 3.x, that was probably a bug in the preprocessor, unfortunately.)

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In GitLab by @micycle1 on Aug 11, 2021, 12:55

It was working in 3.x.

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Created by: sampottinger

I’ll look into this right away @micycle1. Thank you for reporting it.

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Created by: sampottinger

Apologies @benfry and @micycle1 for not having seeing this during the alpha testing. Color is a little strange because, gramatically, it shouldn't be able to appear in a fully qualified name (or import) like int cannot. However, I would hate to have any incompatibility. @benfry, I'm suggesting a change to the grammar. Please see #246.

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