I cannot use variable name "to" anymore

Processing
1

Hello all
I cannot use variable name “to” anymore
Is it maybe a conflicting library?

Thanks!

2 
float to;

void setup(){
  size(400,400);
    int to = 9;
    println(to);
}

I tried this with different versions of processing
4.5.2 Error message
4.5.1 Error message
4.4.4 No error sketch executed as expected

So I suspect it is a Processing bug introduced after 4.4.4 :frowning:

3

Hello folks!

My research…

Related:

I get the same error with “to” with Processing 4.5.5 and W10.

References:

It appears that “to” is in the JavaLexer.g4 for Processing 4.5.5 and it is not in the JavaLexer.g4 for Processing 4.4.0

Processing 4.4.0 JavaLexer.g4:

JavaLexer.g4 
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 Copyright (c) 2017 Ivan Kochurkin (upgrade to Java 8)
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*/

lexer grammar JavaLexer;

// Keywords

ABSTRACT:           'abstract';
ASSERT:             'assert';
BOOLEAN:            'boolean';
BREAK:              'break';
BYTE:               'byte';
CASE:               'case';
CATCH:              'catch';
CHAR:               'char';
CLASS:              'class';
CONST:              'const';
CONTINUE:           'continue';
DEFAULT:            'default';
DO:                 'do';
DOUBLE:             'double';
ELSE:               'else';
ENUM:               'enum';
EXTENDS:            'extends';
FINAL:              'final';
FINALLY:            'finally';
FLOAT:              'float';
FOR:                'for';
IF:                 'if';
GOTO:               'goto';
IMPLEMENTS:         'implements';
IMPORT:             'import';
INSTANCEOF:         'instanceof';
INT:                'int';
INTERFACE:          'interface';
LONG:               'long';
NATIVE:             'native';
NEW:                'new';
PACKAGE:            'package';
PRIVATE:            'private';
PROTECTED:          'protected';
PUBLIC:             'public';
RETURN:             'return';
SHORT:              'short';
STATIC:             'static';
STRICTFP:           'strictfp';
SUPER:              'super';
SWITCH:             'switch';
SYNCHRONIZED:       'synchronized';
THIS:               'this';
THROW:              'throw';
THROWS:             'throws';
TRANSIENT:          'transient';
TRY:                'try';
VAR:                'var';
VOID:               'void';
VOLATILE:           'volatile';
WHILE:              'while';

// Literals

DECIMAL_LITERAL:    ('0' | [1-9] (Digits? | '_'+ Digits)) [lL]?;
HEX_LITERAL:        '0' [xX] [0-9a-fA-F] ([0-9a-fA-F_]* [0-9a-fA-F])? [lL]?;
OCT_LITERAL:        '0' '_'* [0-7] ([0-7_]* [0-7])? [lL]?;
BINARY_LITERAL:     '0' [bB] [01] ([01_]* [01])? [lL]?;

FLOAT_LITERAL:      (Digits '.' Digits? | '.' Digits) ExponentPart? [fFdD]?
             |       Digits (ExponentPart [fFdD]? | [fFdD])
             ;

HEX_FLOAT_LITERAL:  '0' [xX] (HexDigits '.'? | HexDigits? '.' HexDigits) [pP] [+-]? Digits [fFdD]?;

BOOL_LITERAL:       'true'
            |       'false'
            ;

CHAR_LITERAL:       '\'' (~['\\\r\n] | EscapeSequence) '\'';

STRING_LITERAL:     '"' (~["\\\r\n] | EscapeSequence)* '"';
MULTI_STRING_LIT:   '"""' (~[\\] | EscapeSequence)*? '"""';

NULL_LITERAL:       'null';
// Separators
LPAREN:             '(';
RPAREN:             ')';
LBRACE:             '{';
RBRACE:             '}';
LBRACK:             '[';
RBRACK:             ']';
SEMI:               ';';
COMMA:              ',';
DOT:                '.';
// Operators
ASSIGN:             '=';
GT:                 '>';
LT:                 '<';
BANG:               '!';
TILDE:              '~';
QUESTION:           '?';
COLON:              ':';
EQUAL:              '==';
LE:                 '<=';
GE:                 '>=';
NOTEQUAL:           '!=';
AND:                '&&';
OR:                 '||';
INC:                '++';
DEC:                '--';
ADD:                '+';
SUB:                '-';
MUL:                '*';
DIV:                '/';
BITAND:             '&';
BITOR:              '|';
CARET:              '^';
MOD:                '%';
ADD_ASSIGN:         '+=';
SUB_ASSIGN:         '-=';
MUL_ASSIGN:         '*=';
DIV_ASSIGN:         '/=';
AND_ASSIGN:         '&=';
OR_ASSIGN:          '|=';
XOR_ASSIGN:         '^=';
MOD_ASSIGN:         '%=';
LSHIFT_ASSIGN:      '<<=';
RSHIFT_ASSIGN:      '>>=';
URSHIFT_ASSIGN:     '>>>=';
// Java 8 tokens
ARROW:              '->';
COLONCOLON:         '::';
// Additional symbols not defined in the lexical specification
AT:                 '@';
ELLIPSIS:           '...';
// Whitespace and comments
WS:                 [ \t\r\n\u000C]+ -> channel(HIDDEN);
COMMENT:            '/*' .*? '*/'    -> channel(HIDDEN);
LINE_COMMENT:       '//' ~[\r\n]*    -> channel(HIDDEN);

// Identifiers

IDENTIFIER:         Letter LetterOrDigit*;

// Fragment rules

fragment ExponentPart
    : [eE] [+-]? Digits
    ;

fragment EscapeSequence
    : '\\' [btnfr"'\\]
    | '\\' ([0-3]? [0-7])? [0-7]
    | '\\' 'u'+ HexDigit HexDigit HexDigit HexDigit
    ;
fragment HexDigits
    : HexDigit ((HexDigit | '_')* HexDigit)?
    ;
fragment HexDigit
    : [0-9a-fA-F]
    ;
fragment Digits
    : [0-9] ([0-9_]* [0-9])?
    ;
fragment LetterOrDigit
    : Letter
    | [0-9]
    ;
fragment Letter
    : [a-zA-Z$_] // these are the "java letters" below 0x7F
    | ~[\u0000-\u007F\uD800-\uDBFF] // covers all characters above 0x7F which are not a surrogate
    | [\uD800-\uDBFF] [\uDC00-\uDFFF] // covers UTF-16 surrogate pairs encodings for U+10000 to U+10FFFF
    ;

:)

4

Thanks @Chrisir for flagging this.

This is similar to issue #1501. It looks like this has been broken since version 4.4.8 released in October 2025.

A fix is underway in PR #1543 and should be included in a future release.

5

Thanks everyone, much appreciated.

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