Thanks monks!

False alarm. I needed to address the experimental push by casting my reference to array w/ @{}. It's in a different code block from try / catch block so I assumed the errors were unrelated (and they are) but fixing the one addresses the try / catch "issue".

Experimental push on scalar is now forbidden at [mymodule] line 474, n
+ear "$asset;"
Type of arg 1 to Try::Tiny::catch must be block or sub {} (not referen
+ce constructor) at [mymodule] line 680, near "};"
Type of arg 1 to Try::Tiny::try must be block or sub {} (not reference
+ constructor) at [mymodule] line 680, near "};"
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I created short code sample below that illustrates the behavior in action (w/ the fix). Still not at all clear to me how the one (experimental push issue) affects the other, but I'm unblocked from making progress. Any thoughts?

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.006;
use Try::Tiny;

my @array = ();
my $array_ref = \@array;

push $array_ref, 'test'; # bugbug
#push @{$array_ref}, 'test'; # <== change prev line to be like this

test();

sub test {
  try
  {
    my $a = 1/0;
  }
  catch
  {
    print 'awww, snap!';
  };

  1;
}

1;
__END__
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