Perl syntax highlighting fails on // operator

[Mike.lifeguard]

Binary package hint: gedit

A line like the following messes up the rest of the script because gedit thinks it is the beginning of a regex instead of the // operator:

my $var = shift // 1;

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gedit 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 8b15f4fca5292e90a3327d5e528e925e
CheckboxSystem: 988b7c9be54a1e2525cae7d97805a134
Date: Sun May 23 14:34:05 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

That's a gtksourceview issue, can confirm the issue, vim shows the code in the right way, will send it upstream.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619550