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You say this as a joke, but that might actually be a good idea.

Then what's the next version of Perl 6 supposed to be, Perl 8? And the next version of Perl 7 will be Perl 9... From then on their version numbers will leapfrog each other to keep Even Perl and Odd Perl in parity.

> Then what's the next version of Perl 6 supposed to be

raku 2? Perl 5 gets the Perl name back and gets a version number leap to show it's not dead yet and raku is off doing its own thing with its own version numbers, probably hitting 1.0 barely before GNU Hurd.

Rakuier

PINP: PINP Is Not Perl

I agree. It would make a statement about future maintenance of the language, which is used by a vast amount of existing software.

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