tags 11996 patch quit jidanni@jidanni.org writes: > Perl mode indentation does not know about the \() construct. > [Perl mode defined in `perl-mode.el'] > It even reports > forward-sexp: Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 158, 1 > > { >     my @zzzz=(\%seen_couchrequsts, \%seen_people ); >     my @zzzz=\(%seen_couchrequsts, %seen_people ); > my @zzzz=(\%seen_couchrequsts, \%seen_people ); > } I can reproduce this on current master.  It seems to me that this can be fixed by modifying the syntax of the backslash character when it is used as the "backslash operator" and not as an escape character.