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[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Da Witch 
<heather710101@yahoo.com>], who wrote in article <app2h9$a2j$1@reader1.panix.com>:
> 
> 
> I just switched from v4.21 to v4.23 of cperl-mode (and to jit-lock for
> font-lock support), and I've run into a new glitch: if a scalar
> variable's name includes an underscore followed by a "Perl-language
> word" (eg. "time" in $last_time, "scalar" in $triple_scalar_product,
> "my" in $oh_my, "ref" in $hard_ref), then the "keyword part" of the
> name gets the shading it would have had if it really were a
> Perl-language word, the rest appears in the default text face.  This
> happens even when the whole name should be shaded with
> font-lock-variable-name-face (e.g. after "my").
> 
> Is there any way around this problem?

Did you try 4.22?  If this does not help, why not try 4.24?  Again, if
*this* (gasp!) does not help, try 4.25?  And you may continue for a
long time...

Gosh, 4.32 is available for what?  3 years?  And people upgrade fro
4.21 to 4.23 now...

Puzzled,
Ilya