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Cool, I look forward to the next version (17) and the one after that too (28). This is the first Fibonacci version number scheme I've seen, maybe in the spirit of how TeX keeps adding digits of pi.

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Not really a Fibonacci version number system since v(n + 1) = v(n) + n + 5, v(-1) = 0. It doesn't depend on v(n - 1), so while it's a recurrence relation it isn't a Fibonacci-type sequence.

The next version should be 5 + 6 + 7 = 18, not 17.

v(0) = 5

v(1) = 6

v(2) = 11

v(3) = v(1) + v(2) = 17

In general sequences, especially short ones, can have many ways to be generated, but I imagine this is the one the GP meant.

Ah, I see. Unfortunately, this seems to imply that after the present version the project will stop incorporating new mainline releases of Perl (Perl 7 and on) and will instead focus on recombining the previous releases of itself.

with the time that Perl 6 is taking, I think the may have ended before Perl 7

Winamp 5 came after Winamp 3, which came after Winamp 2.

Wow, Winamp.

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