Just because Perl is the melting pot of computer languages doesn't mean you have to stir. Unfortunately, the real world is not usually set up to work that way. Problems tend to be solved at several levels. A typical journey might involve your legs, your car, an escalator, a moving sidewalk, a jet, maybe some more moving sidewalks or a tram, another jet, a taxi, and an elevator. In terms of language, you say something that gets close to what you want to say, and then you start refining it around the edges, just as you would first plan your itinerary between major airports, and only later worry about how to get to and from the airport.
People thrive on ambiguity, as long as it is quickly resolved.
Generally, within a natural language, ambiguity is resolved rapidly using recently spoken words and topics. Perl is full of little ambiguities that people never even notice because they're resolved so rapidly. For instance, many terms and operators in Perl begin with identical characters. Perl resolves them based on whether it's expecting to see a term or an operator, just as a person would. We send people to graduate school to learn to resolve distant ambiguities.