From 0a2d6ee487f636ebf3fa0ea8fe7a644d8fe87302 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nic <162764842+Nic-Polumeyv@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:08:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] a declaration is a reference

---
 packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/scope.js | 6 ++++--
 packages/svelte/src/compiler/utils/ast.js    | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/scope.js b/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/scope.js
index 5652c63c91..f0885f8545 100644
--- a/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/scope.js
+++ b/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/scope.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { walk } from 'zimmerframe';
 import { ExpressionMetadata } from './nodes.js';
 import * as b from '#compiler/builders';
 import * as e from '../errors.js';
-import { bindingOf, parentOf } from '@teasel/parser';
+import { referenceOf, parentOf } from '@teasel/parser';
 import {
 	extract_identifiers,
 	tables_of,
@@ -1086,6 +1086,7 @@ export function create_scopes(ast, root, allow_reactive_declarations, parent) {
 			answer.bindings.length === 0
 		) {
 			for (const reference of answer.references) {
+				if (reference.declares) continue;
 				references.push(new Reference(reference.node, scope, path, false, undefined, reference));
 			}
 			return;
@@ -1182,6 +1183,7 @@ export function create_scopes(ast, root, allow_reactive_declarations, parent) {
 			]);
 		}
 		for (const reference of answer.references) {
+			if (reference.declares) continue;
 			const binding = reference.binding === null ? undefined : from_parser.get(reference.binding);
 			entries.push([
 				reference.node,
@@ -1232,7 +1234,7 @@ export function create_scopes(ast, root, allow_reactive_declarations, parent) {
 
 	/** The parser's declaration a Svelte binding stands for, once declared. @param {Identifier} id */
 	function declared(id) {
-		const parsed = bindingOf(id);
+		const parsed = referenceOf(id)?.binding;
 		return parsed ? from_parser.get(parsed) : undefined;
 	}
 
diff --git a/packages/svelte/src/compiler/utils/ast.js b/packages/svelte/src/compiler/utils/ast.js
index 27cab2e914..de659f380a 100644
--- a/packages/svelte/src/compiler/utils/ast.js
+++ b/packages/svelte/src/compiler/utils/ast.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /** @import { AST, Scope } from '#compiler' */
 /** @import * as ESTree from 'estree' */
 import { walk } from 'zimmerframe';
-import { bindingOf } from '@teasel/parser';
+import { referenceOf } from '@teasel/parser';
 
 /**
  * @typedef {import('@teasel/parser').Root} Tables
@@ -673,8 +673,7 @@ export const value_names = new WeakSet();
  * @param {ESTree.Node | AST.SvelteNode | null | undefined} parent
  */
 export function is_reference(node, parent) {
-	const binding = bindingOf(node);
-	if (binding !== undefined || value_names.has(node)) return true;
+	if (referenceOf(node) !== undefined || value_names.has(node)) return true;
 	if (!parent) return true;
 	switch (parent.type) {
 		case 'MemberExpression':