[hagios]

I think that it could be explained away in that Perl 6 was an experiment with enough major changes that it never took hold, and that Perl 7 was moving the language forward rather than waiting for Perl 6 to gain widespread adoption.

[cjh_]

However once (if) Perl 6 does come out and take hold I still think this would cause confusion.

Explaining it is also a solution to the 'problem' they are trying to solve here, namely that 5.x seems 'dead' and 6.x seems 'alive'. A little explanation that the 5.x branch will continue to exist seems a lot easier (and less confusing).

[pyre]

What really needs to happen is that Perl 6 needs to be scrapped or renamed to something else. At this point there are so many major changes, that it can't really be called Perl anymore.