Thanks. But I'm still puzzled. The array, the dispatcher, the state variables. I'm having a really hard time imagining how that would all come together, especially in a way that would be as easy to follow as the original code. Here's a simplified, but still tangled, if/elsif/else block. Could anybody take a gander at what the code would look like with the array, the dispatcher and the state variables? 
if($checkPrefix and   
   $base =  &driveBase($canon{$tok}, {%$Args, checkPrefix=>0})){
    &equivWord($tok, $canon{$tok}, {})}
elsif($checkPrefix and $savbase = &is_measure_physics_frac($tok)){
    $num_item{$tok} = 1;
    &baseInscript($tok, {group => $savbase,
                         num_item =>1, 
                         root => $tok})}
elsif($base =~ /^[a-z,A-Z]$/){
   &baseInscript($tok, {group =>  'LETTER', root => $tok})}

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