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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by mhd on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:57PM (#21228407)
Ditch the major version. As the current one is 5.30, the next one will be Perl 31, the next stable is Perl 32.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by sdenton4 on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:12PM (#21228531)
There's even a good mathematical justification for going from 5->32; just say that previously the versioning was in log_2 scale...
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