I will welcome the version after 7.0.0, for .0.0 version would be very much the same as 5.32. Not much to gain there.

I especially like the plan that experimental features would be temporary, turning into the core of the language or be removed. I just hope Perl 7 does not create its own backward compatibility baggage anew to tow (until Perl 8?).

Another thing I like about proposed Perl 7 is that it would also remove the need to specify a perl version in order to use non-experimental, permanent features that that particular version brings. hippo corrected me later For example, need to add use v5.10; to use //= with perl 5.10.

In reply to Re: Announcing Perl 7 by parv
in thread Announcing Perl 7 by marto

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