- This has the same technical costs as moving to Perl 7 generally, but the outside-world optics of the move are less strange. However, the feature then needs to be big enough to justify a bump in this way, lest it be perceived as a PR stunt for repackaging mostly-same-old as a major new version. And it does not set a precedent for when the version is to be bumped, opening up a future debate about whether changes are big enough to warrant a bump, and creating indirect pressure to introduce big headlining features every so often in order to justify a bump to avoid a renewed perception of stagnation. In the same vein, as already experienced before, with this type of version bump, there will be strong temptation to including breaking changes within its scope, every single time a new one happens – not just because of the seeming opportunity to clean house, but partly also because a perceived need to break certain things more easily makes the case for bumping the version.
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