Please read my reply again. But I'll help you out:

ihb: ... if it's obvious where to look after reading perltoc

This is the key sentence and answers both your questions.

Why would Pod::Master be mentioned in perltoc?

I never said it should. Read my quote above.

Why would you say look at the index instead of perlref or perlre?

Because they obviously didn't read perltoc (read my quote again) and the next time they want to know about a perl feature they'll come asking where to look instead of looking it up themselves in perltoc.

We point people towards perlfunc when it's a question about functions. We point people towards perlref when it's a question about references. We should perhaps point people to perltoc when it's a question about documentation.

You say that perltoc "looks fairly well organized and indexed to me." Problem is, few know to look there.

ihb

Read argumentation in its context!

In reply to Re^4: Perl documentation by ihb
in thread Perl documentation by johnnywang

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