Judging by the response so far, it doesn't look good. It occurred to me last night that I should have added an example or two, but I thought most would understand what I was talking about. I certainly didn't mean that this should replace searching CPAN---rather that it would make it easier to find the module(s) a person was looking for when they don't know the title, only the function. Just as a for instance, see Appendix A in Perl Pocket Reference. I'd particularly like it if the document was 'live' (i.e. html) and linked to CPAN. I suppose the thing to do is to go ahead and create an initial version, post it and see what happens. Thanks, BTW for the offer.