That is not actually the same thing. PHP 6 was thrown away never to be seen from again, because it was seen as bad. Perl 6 was renamed because both Perl 5 and

That is not actually the same thing. PHP 6 was thrown away never to be seen from again, because it was seen as bad. Perl 6 was renamed because both Perl 5 and Perl 6 are significantly different active languages. If Perl went to 7 it could indicate to some that 6 was bad in the same way. That is it would trade one confusion for another. --- If Perl truly wants to go beyond 5, it should make a major step. Either by going to the subversion (32), or the year (2020).