Re: TimToady Approved renaming Perl6 to Raku

What is your stance about version numbering?

Is Perl version 6.0.0 too confusing now and will we be having a jump to Perl 7.00.0, not unlike PHP? Or is it better we have a perl 5.32.0 and greater? And only after a mayor change, switch to a higher version?

use classic_perl; # enable backwards compatibility by disabling modern
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perl -E '@_=split//,`cal 1`; say @_[37,38,576,86]'

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Re^2: TimToady Approved renaming Perl6 to Raku by wazoox (Prior) on Oct 14, 2019 at 10:37 UTC
We can do like Java, which will remain Java 2.x for ever, but actually dropped the 2. So that'll be perl 32, perl 33, etc.	[reply]
Re^2: TimToady Approved renaming Perl6 to Raku by LanX (Sage) on Oct 14, 2019 at 13:25 UTC
7 is a holy number in most world religions. It has too much of a marketing potential on this planet to be disregarded. But IMHO a new major release should come with new features to be credible. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]


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