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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 05:21:34PM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Oct 29, 2009, at 5:02 PM, jesse wrote: > > >I've actually been pressing various people to consider dropping the > >first . from the "marketing" name of Perl 5 versions. My main reason > >for > >wanting to do this has to do with helping to reinforce that Perl 5 and And I have been strongly objecting to *just* dropping the first . > >Perl 6 are separate languages. They share a common father and a common > >spirit, but Perl 6 does not "obsolete" Perl 5. > > +1 for "Perl 5 v12.0 to be released this year. NO. Look $ ./perl -e 'require v12.0' Perl v12.0.0 required--this is only v5.11.1, stopped at -e line 1. It won't You're just creating new version number pain. Like we don't have enough already. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next