bug#64364: 30.5; cperl-mode: Bad indentation for subroutine attrs / signatures

bug#64364: 30.5; cperl-mode: Bad indentation for subroutine attrs / signatures

[Harald Jörg]

Owner: haj@posteo.de

Since Perl 5.20, Perl subroutines can be declared with signatures.
When subroutine signatures are written in a line of their own,
indentation in cperl-mode gets it wrong.

Example: This is how it should look like (All examples
with cperl-indentation-style set to "PBP"), and also
how perl-mode indents it:
--------------------------------------------------
package P {
    sub way { ...; }

    sub bus
	:lvalue
	($sig,$na,@ture)
    {
	...;
    }
}
--------------------------------------------------

This is how it is indented when I mark the whole buffer and call
<M-x> indent-region.  The subroutine attribute and signature should be
indented as continuation lines, but they aren't.
--------------------------------------------------
package P {
    sub way { ...; }

    sub bus
    :lvalue
    ($sig,$na,@ture)
    {
	...;
    }
}
--------------------------------------------------

This is how it is indented when I indent every single line with <TAB>
(which runs `cperl-indent-command').  The code block of the subroutine
and everything up to the closing brace of the enclosing package is
indented too far.
--------------------------------------------------
package P {
    sub way { ...; }

    sub bus
	:lvalue
	($sig,$na,@ture)
	{
	    ...;
	}
    }
--------------------------------------------------

I am working on fixing this, as part of properly supporting subroutine
signatures in cperl-mode. The purpose of this bug report is a
demonstration of the symptoms.
-- 
Cheers,
haj

bug#64364: Indentation of subroutine signatures has been fixed in the repository.

[Harald Jörg]

Indentation of Perl code with subroutine signatures has been fixed in
the Emacs master branch.  cperl-mode.el as available in the repository
can be used with Emacs 28 and 27 (and could be backported to Emacs 26 if
there is interest).

-- 
Cheers,
haj