Syntax highlighting breaks after < and <= operators about vscode-kotlin

[mondique]

It seems that it thinks that < is the beginning of a scope (an opening brace). As you can see, it highlights the text after > and the original < is highlighted as the corresponding brace for the > sign.
(And by the way, the closing > sign was not shifted by me - I typed it at the beginning of the line - it was probably aligned with the line 2 containing "<")

vscode version: 1.29.1
Kotlin Language version: 1.7.0 (from marketplace)
OS: Windows 10 Pro version 1803

[valen214]

/syntaxes/Kotlin.tmLanguage: line 829 suggests the cause is '<' being captured as generic.begin

[wildlava]

I can verify that temporarily changing the symbols for "<" and ">" on lines 831 and 841 of Kotlin.tmLanguage causes the problem to go away. It might work, therefore, just to remove the detection of the generic begin/end chars (at least as a stop-gap solution). But I am not sure of the exact changes to this file that would be required to do that.

[Mithrandir2k18]

Issue still present, check out this file, commit d2e703c, line 63

Kotlin v1.7.0
Windows 10 1709, 16299.1625
Code v 1.42.0