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since man doesn't have any (real) notion of (hyper-) links, as far as I know.

Its been almost two decades, but I remember clicking on links in perlpod manpages ... I think using bin/info ...

didn't take me long to switch to a web browser for clicking on docs

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Re^4: Escape newlines in POD / (Selectively) don't generate space characters instead
by Ionic (Acolyte) on Nov 09, 2020 at 02:28 UTC

    Its been almost two decades, but I remember clicking on links in perlpod manpages ... I think using bin/info ...
    Heh, yeah, but those are "hacks" in the viewers, as also explained in the linked answer:
    […] most pages aren't really designed for hypertext, and the default man program doesn't support it […]
    There are however man page viewing programs that reconstruct some hyperlinks […]

    My point was just that the underlying language doesn't support hyperlinks and, as such, a generator needn't check the validity of links. This is probably different for formats like Texinfo (or, more prominently, (X)HTML), which do understand and use the concept of hyperlinks.

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