having just approved When to use Java? into SoPW because I could see no alternative (it's not quite a Meditation, nor is it Discussion on PM, and it's hardly code, obfuscated or not), I wondered. Is there a need for a general grab bag category?

Currently, SoPW seems to serve as a general fall back posting category, and the HowTo seems to suggest that it is indeed the correct place for this kind of question. However, one might also think of SoPW as a place for quick questions/answers for actual Perl problems, as in with code, or asking for code.

Is there a need to create a grab bag category to place the occasional slightly OT, not really Perl, general or Just Plain Weird question? My personal opinion is that the advantages of this would not outweigh the disadvantages. Sure, SoPW gets swamped and cluttered at times, but I think that adding yet another category, especially one with an intended goal that is subtly and possibly even too subtly different from it, would confuse things too much. One more category, especially when it is not clearly delineated,will not help here, and the occasional outrageously misposted node can be dealt with through the accepted normal means.

To end this, a quick step back to When to use Java?: it is not exactly a Perl question, but is generates some interesting discussions on efficiency and performance (or at least links thereto). Whether creating a new category for questions such as this would generate the same level of discussion, is anybody's guess.

So, even though I suggested the category, my personal opinion is agaist it, but I'm willing to be proven wrong. What's the monks' feeling?

CU
Robartes-

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