diff --git a/mode/perl/perl.js b/mode/perl/perl.js
index c12677d2498787e6958c5798e3efa7a82f162158..2a64c2ed410033757137945115b2407a8b4e0de1 100644
--- a/mode/perl/perl.js
+++ b/mode/perl/perl.js
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ CodeMirror.defineMode("perl",function(){
                                 tail:null};},
                 token:function(stream,state){
                         return (state.tokenize||tokenPerl)(stream,state);},
-                electricChars:"{}"};});
+                };});
 
 CodeMirror.registerHelper("wordChars", "perl", /[\w$]/);