That is probably the best solution, but at the same time it is such a hilarious thing.

I think it would be a better idea to make the minor number be the major number. So skip to 32.

Why not Perl 10 or Perl X?

no, it's called cperl now. perl5 didn't see not much improvements for the last 20 years, the development happens only in cperl, which is the perl5 successor.