I feel that in the upcoming version of Perl, the core team fixes the Unicode bug as a reason to break backward compatibility Perl 5.

Unicode in Perl internally has some inconsistencies due to conflicts between latin-1 and UTF-8.

this is true.

On the other hand, from the user's point of view, a Perl string works perfectly fine if you only accept it can't tell whether it's a decoded string or a bytes.

We are solving this problem by convention.

Where do we determine if it is a string or a bytes?

The inside and outside of the program are completely …

I write my thinking and question about Proposal for Perl 7.

The Proposal for Perl 7

1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,

First of all, I am wondering about this assumption.

This is because there are very few incompatible API changes in Perl's history (Perl 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

If the Python developers are thinking this way, it makes sense.

Has Perl ever thought of this in history?

Perhaps Perl has kept the maximum backward compatib…