Re: perl mode color highlighting working badly

[Richard M. Stallman]

    It's a bug, but it's a corner case (one particular situation in perl-mode)
    among many other corner-case bugs (perl-mode's highlighting doesn't do
    a 100% job anyway, far from that, thanks to the "interesting" syntactic
    features of Perl).  So I don't think it's that important.

It seems that highlighting in Perl mode is pretty bad.
Maybe this corner case is just a small part of that.
If so, can the rest of it be fixed?