It will be different.

Perl5 came out in 1994 so by the time PM came around (1999?) Perl4 was fairly obsolete. I have not noted many Perl4 questions. Hopefully Perl6 will be much more popular.

Perl5 is a superset of Perl4, at least I can't remember any Perl4 that failed or changed meaning under perl5. Perl6 changes the meaning of very small chunks of code. The confusion factor will be much greater.

I bring up the issue at this early date because I dislike the idea of splitting SOPW. Fancier solutions may require support in the site's code. I like the trend of halley's thoughts on this.

<frantic>Oh no! Now we have to deal Yet Another Perl Flavor! What ever will we do?</frantic>

This is just insulting and you are forgiven. In my post I stated that the problem has not arrived yet -- there is nothing frantic in my post. I suggested action -- there is no What ever will we do? tone. Like you I think PM is great. I am trying to keep it that way. I'm sorry that the quality of my thoughts are such that they inspire your ridicule.

Consider: Help, I've read the doc's but I can't figure out what's wrong:

blah(); yada();
$var{$field} |= $bool;
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