Perl Best Practices: Regular Expressions: Backtracking – Prevent useless backtracking

• Perl Best Practices – O’Reilly Media

OMG!

Is there a way resp. tool to check, that some code, that I will look at, will in fact comply to the recipes at the end of that chapter?
I mean, yes, of course, I can always by default encode regexes the way, DC suggests there, but that makes them far harder to read than necessary, right?