in reply to Re^4: Think Perl 6 (new book)
in thread Think Perl 6 (new book)

I still don't grasp what the issue is.

Perl's major release number is locked to 5 because of Perl6. Maybe that's what it is all about.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

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Re^6: Think Perl 6 (new book)
by jdporter (Paladin) on May 20, 2017 at 12:30 UTC

    Maybe they should do what SunOS/Solaris did and drop the first number. Next major release number would be 26 (e.g.). :-)

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