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in thread Slow evolution of Perl = Perl is a closed Word

I agree that the feedback loop would eventually lead to a parser that works reasonably for arbitrary perl5 code.
I think you misunderstood. The feedback loop I see tye talking about is that programmers using syntax highlighting will tend to not use constructs the highlighter gets wrong, thus making the highlighting of the growing codebase closer and closer to perfect. That's the opposite of "arbitrary" perl5 code.
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