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> Which is a way of saying that the initialisation for cperl-mode isn't
> watertight. =A0;-)

no it's a way to say that emacs is not watertight.

There is no automatic testing system and every little incompatible
changes can easily break a complex mode like cperl.

I recently had a long discussion until the dev team admitted that they
screwed font locking in compilation buffer because they started
appending newlines to all regexes ...