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perl-mode warns about mismatched parentheses wrongly

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 45114 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45114: perl-mode warns about mismatched parentheses wrongly
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 09:14:43 +0200

On December 8, 2020 9:09:51 AM GMT+02:00, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "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.

I disagree.

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