No, it doesn't. Perl "6" is dead, now a new language called Raku. The major version jump to 7 is partly to get past that confusion.
To quote the announcement on perl.com:
Why 7 and not 6?
There are two parts to this answer. First, “Perl 6” was already taken by what is now known as Raku. A long time ago, we thought that a very ambitious rewrite effort would replace v5.8. In short, that’s not what happened and the language has gone on to live a life of its own.
So, 7 was the next available number. That’s it. It’s just the next cardinal number in line.
Hope this helps!
The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
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I think the intended pun was that you can only approximate 2 pi but never reach it.
IIRC it's from the time the project was revived with a haskell implementation.
In this sense, yeah we are "over" Perl 6 now. ;)
Edit: Yep, see Pugs (programming)
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