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.

In reply to Re^4: Escape newlines in POD / (Selectively) don't generate space characters instead by Ionic
in thread Escape newlines in POD / (Selectively) don't generate space characters instead by Ionic

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