Comment by userbinator

With all the special characters in source code and attempts at a terse syntax for array-ish operations, it looks like Perl is trying to become APL. But statements like

    return unique flat small-divisors, big-divisors;

are ambiguous even to a human, because '-' is usually used for subtraction, but I guess Perl's parser somehow manages to disambiguate (between a single variable named 'small-divisors', and the subtraction of 'small' and 'divisor')?