GNU bug report logs - #45114
perl-mode warns about mismatched parentheses wrongly

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 45114 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45114: perl-mode warns about mismatched parentheses wrongly
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:09:51 +0800

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
EZ> I see nothing special about regular expressions in this context.  Parens matching is useful there as well as anywhere else.

/[

means we are entering characters that stand on their own, that _should
not be thought to match_ previous characters.

As I am entering the regexp, emacs should not tell me that

/[}

is wrong.

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