Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by Grinnz on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:17PM (#21228057)

I can say that at least currently, there is no appetite for Perl attempting to "reclaim" the Perl 6 version in the foreseeable future. It would be a disaster in both community relations and marketing. It will either be Perl 7 or Perl 34+.

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by irrational on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:33PM (#21228187)

Perl 2019

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by lilSebastian on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:02PM (#21228443)

This one goes to 11

http://perl11.org/

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by rurban on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:35PM (#21228713)

And we'll keep that name and idea. 5 + 6 = 11, as it should have been

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by b2gills on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:01AM (#21267198)

This has the benefit of showing that Perl gets a new version released every year.

I have previously stated that I would like it to be an alias of sorts.

    use v5.30;

    use v2019;

Basically have both of those lines do the same thing.

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Perhaps even something like:

    use Perl v2019;

(I actually considered posting a module that would make that work.)

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