Subject: Re: bug#22867: cperl-mode: Commit d0ad6306 suppresses fontification of hash/array declarations

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 09:34:46 -0700

forcemerge 11054 22867
thanks

Harald Jörg <[email-masked]> writes:

> The recent fix d0ad6306 to cperl-mode fixes a lot of unwanted
> fontification of arrays and hashes, in particular in comments, POD,
> and strings.  However, as a side effect it also prevents fontification
> in a variable declaration (this has been observed by choroba):

It would be very nice to have test cases for all this.

Is the fix worse than the problem?  If yes, maybe it should be reverted?

> Also, this bug can be merged with (Bug#11054), which in turn had been
> merged with (Bug#3091).

Done.