I'm curious if you're trying to highlight the wisdom or dramatic aspect of the Perl initiative that's the subject of the OP. ---- If you're not intending to h

I'm curious if you're trying to highlight the wisdom or dramatic aspect of the Perl initiative that's the subject of the OP. ---- If you're not intending to highlight either of these things, then I suspect you perhaps haven't understood the OP. Perl has long had features that Perl folk consider better than Python's equivalents -- the issue you raise ('strict' lexical scoping) is an exemplar -- but Perl as it currently is has these features switched off (in the name of backwards compatibility). The proposal in the OP is that Perl folk will consensually agree on which of 30 years worth of accumulated advances in Perl to switch on by default, and then newbies will automatically get that improved Perl by default.