The analyzer is correct. The word "static" is not a keyword in dart, only a "built-in identifier". It is allowed as the name of a variable. It just can't be the name of a class, typedef or type parameter, or used as a type annotation.

That means that "var static = 42;" is correct, and "static var x = 42;" can be too (inside a class), but since static must come before the type/var/final, and the name must come after, there should not be any ambiguity.

So, you should be able to do "static int static = 42;".

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I agree with Lasse. dart2js handles this better for top-level variables and class members since these are implemented using "findMemberName" in the parser.

There is a similar issue for local functions:

void main() {
  static() => 'Hello World';
  print(static);
}

Gives:

Error: Expected identifier, but got '('.
  static() => 'Hello World';
        ^