Looking over my post, I can see how you or anyone else might take that as an insult. It was not intended as such and I apologize to you and anyone else how took it as such.

When someone mentions making major or even minor changes to PerlMonks or to Perl for that matter, some people do get frantic about it. Perhaps I should have used <sarcastic>, <unwashed masses> or <poor attempt at humor> instead.

Perl5 will still work with Perl6. As for your example, if that were posted now, what would you say? I'd say something along the lines of "Where's the rest of the code? Is this 5.6.x, 5.8.x or some other version of Perl?"