Perhaps you can dream up the design of some new useful “Perl lint” tool . . . if you do so, please tell us all about it.   Otherwise, I am afraid that “Perl has many warts,” and one might opine that this is one of them.   (Every language has its own specific collection of ear-mites.)   Now, turn this discussion into something that all of us can actually use... dream up a useful-to-many-of-us solution tool.   Something so cool and pragmatically useful that none of us will be able to fathom how we ever lived without it.