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The $sanity is a different colour, indicating it will be interpolated. But the ->{sane} is the same colour as the rest of the string, implying it will not be interpolated.

Its hilighted the same as 

$sanity->{sane} = 4;

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Shouldn't the whole of $sanity->{sane} be the same colour as an interpolated variable? That way one could know whether or not the syntax was actually correct for interpolation.

syntax hilighters aren't perl interpreters , they don't actually check syntax

But even Padre failed to highlight properly and I thought that was supposed to know the most about Perl internals.

Who decides what is proper?

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Re^2: Useful syntax highlighting to illustrate variable interpolation?
by will_ (Scribe) on Feb 07, 2011 at 11:56 UTC

    syntax hilighters aren't perl interpreters , they don't actually check syntax

    Well, they should do.

    Who decides what is proper?

    I knew someone was going to ask that. We decide!

    Proper is something that helps efficient coding. That tells me whether or not what I'm writing is what I intended to write.

    Proper syntax highlighting will tell me what the code is going to do before I run it.

    So, does anyone know how to 'fix' this problem?

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      to fix this problem get the latest vim (or at least vim 7.2) and the latest syntax file for perl (at least last changed 2009-09-2).
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