Re: perl mode color highlighting working badly

[Stefan Monnier]

>     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.

I wouldn't call it bad.

> Maybe this corner case is just a small part of that.
> If so, can the rest of it be fixed?

Yes, but I'd rather fix them on a need basis, because Perl's screwy syntax
basically guarantees an infinite supply of corner cases.


        Stefan