in reply to Introspective POD

(I hope I'm not totally misunderstanding your question.) The standard practice, in my experience, is a suitable mention in the "SEE ALSO" section of the docs. Relatively low tech, I agree, but probably the only approach that is general enough to be useful.

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Re^2: Introspective POD
by rvosa (Curate) on Aug 11, 2005 at 04:17 UTC
    I'm sceptical about the effictiveness of the SEE ALSO section: i) it has to be hand-maintained, so probably lagging behind development ii) it's usually at the bottom of the POD - many readers will tune out before that.

    I think my question is more general: can a module manipulate its POD, i.e.: 
    =item TITLE

ref $self - frobnication library version $VERSION

=cut

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    I'm interested in the (hypothetical) ability of interpolating variables (for example from @ISA), so that the documentation doesn't go stale.
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