Syntax coloring of 'other'..

Hi there,
currently I am on my trial for the new Flash Builder 4.5. What I really dislike is the absence of coloring 'other' things in Actionscript files.
In the Java section it's called 'other' and things like classes, datatypes etc. are affected.
The things highlighted in lat should be affected by 'other':
var test:TestClass = new TestClass();
public function giveClass() : TestClass {..};
Is there any chance to get a solution for this? :-)
Regards,
Patrice

ProjectBuilder/XCode has never been able to keep up with my typing speed no matter how much processor I throw at it; something CodeWarrior was able to do (with infinitely better syntax highlighting and code browsing) on a 100MHz Performa. It's just a nightmare project full of NeXT era cruft nobody's taken the time to clean up since it's free.

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