title: SyntaxError: missing variable name
body: <p>I'm running <a href="http://www.javascriptlint.com/">JavaScript Lint</a> on a project to check for common programming errors. I'm hitting this error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><strong>SyntaxError:</strong> missing variable name</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>On this line:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>var char, font;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>From Googling, I've found that that error is shown when a reserved word is used as a variable name; but judging by <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Reserved_Words">MDN's list</a>, neither <code>char</code> nor <code>font</code> is reserved.</p>
  
  <p>What is the problem here?</p>