Further, the number of people currently interested in Perl6 or Parrot simply doesn't warrant a section. How many SoPWs about Parrot have been you seeing per month? About Perl6?

Not many I agree, but I contend that we would see many more if it didn't feel "inappropriate" to ask them here.

Asking "How would I code XYZ in Perl6" is hardly the stuff of a Meditation, but equally, it feels wrong to ask that question as a SoPW.

And please don't conflate this with the long-standing issue of the cruftiness of the current section structure.

I'm not conflating anything. I didn't mention anything about any "cruftiness", and I won't address non-issues based on words I didn't say.

I've argued before on many an occasion that we shouldn't have a Perl6 section and I remain firmly in that camp.

And I'm firmly in the other camp.

As you point out, your experiences based on other places are irrelevant to this place.

...readers...always ask for more forums for various things they think would make a cool topic.

We're talking about Perl 6 here! Something that has been in gestation for what? 3 years or more already? This is hardly a case of a passing fad.

The major driving force behind this subject is none other than that person to which this place holds a shrine.

Perl 6 is being designed to become the language for the next 20 or 30 years. Hardly a fly-by-night ambition. This is not the same as most other requests for new sections. There is unlikely to be any one (or 10) other subject(s) more worthy of the creation of a new section here than Perl 6, and (IMO) if it's possible to do, it should be done.

The way I see it, either Perl 6 is a desirable, almost enevitable "forthcoming event", that the premiere Perl community wants to embrace, support and disseminate--or it's a passing fad that we wish to ignore. At the moment we are pretty much ignoring it and I don't think we should be.

All that is likely to have about as much affect upon the nay-sayers and head-buriers as farting in a hurricane. Still, that's my opinion.