I did think about it. Two things persuaded me to post it as a meditation:

1. The blurb for the tutorials section suggests that a would-be tutorial should initially be posted as a meditation.
2. It doesn't fit any of the tutorial categories. It would even look out of place in other topics, I think.

I think the Miscellaneous Perl Tutorials section might be appropriate, at least until such time as a "Perl Internals" section gets made. robin++

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