It can be externally parsed with ambiguities. The article is written by someone who authored such a parsing toolkit about three years later. Despite what you may have learnt, an ambiguous parse tree is still a useful thing to have, we can build tools taking it into account, also most existing tools can be modified in a straightforward fashion to make use of the extra nodes.
The real Perl parser disambiguates with heuristics and run-time hints.
There exists an unambiguous subset of Perl syntax that is expressible with a BNF grammar, and such is amenable to all parsers. http://p3rl.org/standard#DESCRIPTION
The real Perl parser disambiguates with heuristics and run-time hints.
There exists an unambiguous subset of Perl syntax that is expressible with a BNF grammar, and such is amenable to all parsers. http://p3rl.org/standard#DESCRIPTION