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in reply to Re: Why Change?
in thread Why Change?

We fixed the things that bother you in Perl 5.

So true. More specifically, we are fixing the things that can't be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility.

And since we found that quite a few things need fixing, a strong emphasis is on making things much more flexible, thus allowing easier fixes in future.