[comp.emacs.xemacs] XEmacs perl font-lock errors (how to fix?)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ville Skyttä writes:

 > On Monday 06 August 2007, Vin Shelton wrote:
 > > Forwarded from comp.emacs.xemacs
 > 
 > > I am seeing font-lock syntax coloring errors in any perl file I edit. 
 > > The errors began after a recent upgrade in experimental packages to sync 
 > > them with emacs.
 > 
 > I've started seeing some of those as well.

If you can supply short sample files that are incorrectly highlighted
by the new code and correctly highlighted by old code, with either
descriptions of the bug or good/bad/ugly images, I would like to try
to add some features to test-harness for this.