Unfortunately they don't quite line up with C#, mostly because types can act as unary operators. type foo = bar; becomes a bit ambiguous if type can act as a unary op. Is it a variable declaration, or is foo supposed to be a param to type, and the result assigned? Almost always the first, but requires a bit of work /lookahead to determine that.
So you'll need to use 'new' to disambiguate them (or perhaps 'local'):
new int x = 42;
Not fantastically ideal, but adjustments are not unexpected when making relatively far reaching changes in a language. The parsed bits don't work yet. That's for tomorrow or the weekend.
