Subject: bug#66050: Making perl-mode.el obsolete

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:26:48 -0700

Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:

> If it is feasible to put conditionals in CPerl mode to make it behave
> like Perl mode -- or close enough that almost everyone is happy with
> it -- maybe then we could obsolete the current Perl mode.

Agreed.  Let's start with adding such options to cperl-mode.