Subject: 24.4.50; perl-mode indentation problem
From: David Howells <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:53:48 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

perl mode automatically indents substantially off to the right following the
first sub definition that has an odd number of '$' characters in the argument
spec, eg.:

	#!/usr/bin/perl -w

	sub add_funds($) {
	    return 0;
		      }

The closing brace should be against the left margin, but isn't because it
seems that perl-mode interprets '$)' in the sub line as being a variable
expansion and not a variable spec and a closing bracket.

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