What happened to Perl 7?

Nobody asks for or is impressed by rote memorisation of trivia like this, except high school exams and whiteboard interviewers at toxic workplaces; getting annoyed at the presumption of having to do so is silly when *you don't*! If you're using a programming language then you have a computer available, here's how to get a history of syntax-affecting feature flags straight out of the computer, ergo there's nothing wrong with it. (I wish pydoc was half as thorough...)

As an aside everyone in the vicinity now knows that 1) there's a self-contained CLI doc system 2) it contains useful information that you're not expected to memorise 3) the existence of said info implies perl doesn't do Flag Days with unavoidable breaking syntax changes.

Maybe the article could've spelled everything out and saved all this, but it's honestly asking too much to expect it to - it's aimed at entrenched perl5 users waiting for rapture after the broken mugs incident, who care about the specifics of things like the forward compatibility of postfix dereferencing sigils, and they all presumably got taught how to use their tools in the far less polite environment of the 90s/00s.