PHP 6 was really about unicode support. It will actually create even confusion among veterans. Also, those PHP 6 books are really aimed at beginners.

In addition, skipping a version number also creates confusion. If they were going to go this route, they should have done it a long time ago (around 2010-2011).

http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-...

Yeah well... give it just a couple of more years and there will be kids born as Perl 6 was announced getting webdev jobs.