Of course, the problem with a missing right bracket is that perl keeps looking for it till it reaches the end of the file. So that damned error _always_ gives the last line! The best bet is a syntax sensitive editor. Though come to think of it it could be a good use for Text::DelimMatch...
(It would be nice if perl reported the line of the left bracket, but I guess that would be yet more complications in the parser.)

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