On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:13:55AM -0500, jesse wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:44:43AM +0000, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > Renaming Perl 6 to something completely different, and renaming perl > > 5.12 to perl 6. > > Perl 5 and Perl 6 are different languages at this point. > > Perl 5 12.0 solves that problem neatly ;) ^ ^ | | `----- that character | `-- and that character
are not the same, yet they map to the same concept in the implementation. Find a single character that can sit in both positions, and this plan is far more viable. Nicholas Clark