Setup type and modifiers of local variables on creation.

pkg/front_end/lib/src/fasta/parser/parser.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 library fasta.parser.parser;
 
 import '../scanner.dart' show ErrorToken;
 
 import '../scanner/recover.dart' show closeBraceFor, skipToEof;
 
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   }
 
   Token parseVariablesDeclarationNoSemicolon(Token token) {
     // Only called when parsing a for loop, so this is for parsing locals.
     return parseVariablesDeclarationMaybeSemicolon(token, false);
   }
 
   Token parseVariablesDeclarationMaybeSemicolon(
       Token token, bool endWithSemicolon) {
     int count = 1;
-    listener.beginVariablesDeclaration(token);
     token = parseModifiers(token);
     token = parseTypeOpt(token);
+    listener.beginVariablesDeclaration(token);
     token = parseOptionallyInitializedIdentifier(token);
     while (optional(',', token)) {
       token = parseOptionallyInitializedIdentifier(token.next);
       ++count;
     }
     if (endWithSemicolon) {
       Token semicolon = token;
       token = expectSemicolon(semicolon);
       listener.endVariablesDeclaration(count, semicolon);
       return token;
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         break;
     }
     if (isRecoverable) {
       listener.handleRecoverableError(token, kind, arguments);
       return null;
     } else {
       return listener.handleUnrecoverableError(token, kind, arguments);
     }
   }
 }