Match operator not highlighted when used in assignment

[chrstphrchvz]

Observed in Visual Studio Code 1.50.0.

A match operator will not be highlighted as regex if it uses / delimiters without the m prefix, is matching $_ implicitly, and is used in an assignment statement directly after the = (e.g. is not in parentheses).

Example code:

$_ = 'Hello world';
my ($match) = /Hello\s+(\S*)/;

One workaround is to use the m prefix: