Haha, my comment was definitely tongue in cheek ;) I fully expect most of properly written Perl code to be statically parseable into an AST, save for pathologic

Haha, my comment was definitely tongue in cheek ;) I fully expect most of properly written Perl code to be statically parseable into an AST, save for pathological cases (and I fully expect a proper rubocop-like Perl linter to highlight such ambiguities, and would reject them in any sensible project)