Re: perl mode color highlighting working badly

[Richard M. Stallman]

    >     Indeed.  I've mentioned already a few times that the functionality
    >     offered by font-lock-syntactic-keywords should be added to syntax.el
    >     (which means make it independent from font-lock) after which
    >     font-lock-syntactic-keywords can be made obsolete.

    > Would you like to implement that now?

    I think it could wait for after Emacs-22.

If things are working ok now, this should wait for after the release.
But I thought we were trying to fix a bug.  That is why I suggested
doing it now.