++ for highlighting an important issue. Providing useful information is never wrong and we often forget to reference beyond perldoc and Perl Monks. If monks feel they have the time and energy this is certainly a good thing to practice - not only for academic but for practical nodes as well.

Your node has resulted in at least two concrete thing for me. I shall try to make it a habit to end responses with a list of the (most) relevant perldocs related to the OP and my post, just as I do when documenting modules in the SEE ALSO section. If someone has a question about references, I'll include links to perldoc material about references. Also, I've put perltoc in my signature so people know where to look for the relevant Perl documentation themselves.

ihb