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Perl mode colors the word "argument" funny

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Message #11 received at 46024 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: haj <at> posteo.de (Harald Jörg)
Cc: 46024 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: Re: bug#46024: Perl mode colors the word "argument" funny
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:38:33 +0100

haj <at> posteo.de (Harald Jörg) writes:

> So I wonder: What is the ambition of Emacs to support Raku?  The
> languages Perl (Perl 5) and Raku (Perl 6) have diverged in their syntax,
> so robably it is rather cumbersome to support both with any of the Perl
> modes.  In my opionion, randomly adding Raku features to the modes
> brings more confusion than productivity, and in any case keywords which
> are no longer part of either language should be eliminated, in
> particular: 'argument', which is the topic of this bug report.

Long term, it does seem like the best solution would be to have a
separate mode for Raku, and not keep tweaking (c)perl-mode to add Raku
features, I think.

So backing out this change ('argument' etc) sounds like a good idea to
me.

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