in reply to Linking from POD

If I were you, I'd just link to the "Extended Patterns" heading, rather than trying to link directly to the =item in question. Links seem to be one of the least consistently implemented parts of pod, so it's probably best to keep them simple.

use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name