G'day Jeff,

"I've kind of forgotten where to ask Perl questions, ..."

On this site, "Seekers of Perl Wisdom" is where you post questions; "Meditations" is more for discussion and commentary. The top of both of those pages has more details about this; other sections (e.g. "Perl Monks Discussion") have equivalent information regarding appropriate usage.

Your post contains both a discussion and a question; however, as you've emboldened the question, I considered "Seekers of Perl Wisdom" to be the more appropriate section and have moved your post there.

Beyond that, I had no problems with your post and have both approved and upvoted it.

Minor update: LanX beat me to the approval.