I wasn't talking about pseudo upgrades.

A built-in Moose like OO system would be nice.

It doesn't need to be fast, just stable.

> How Perl can tame and shape that evolution

Evolution is about try and error and prooving fitness.

We need a better playground for experimenting with new language features. Syntactic macros come to mind.

We need a better hooking policy:

• on one side P5P can't support all changes to builtin behaviour.
• OTOH is PadWalker still considered an unsupported hack, why?

We need a better language definition:

• more orthogonality (e.g. aliasing, local only for package vars ... why?)
• beginner friendlier docs highlighting the essential features and banning the edge cases to footnotes.
• pragmas helping to enforce mainstream while still allowing backwards compatibility

We need a better narrative what and why Perl does...

(my train is arriving...)