Subject: bug#15846: 24.3.50; cperl-mode: Dont parse '@' within comment sections

From: Nathan Trapuzzano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 06:16:19 -0500

Jambunathan K <[email-masked]> writes:

> 1. C-x C-f t.pl
> 2. M-x cperl-mode
>
>      [email-masked]
>           ^^^
>
> Note that part of the Email address (marked above) is fontified with
> cperl-array-face.

It does this for hashes too.  FWIW I did (setq
font-lock-maximum-decoration '((cperl-mode . 1)) a long time ago and
never looked back.  That got rid of all the obnoxious highlighting,
including the in-comment stuff.