> The outcome is that poddoc can be Pod6 "pure" and perldoc can be (as its > name suggests) documentation for Perl.
Sorry to reply to myself twice. Making poddoc independent of Perl 6 opens the doors a little further for having pythondoc and phpdoc and yourlanguageheredoc which extract the POD tags ala poddoc and then add the inlined/introspectable documentation for that particular language. Now the "only" hard part is getting the other language designers to allow ignoring pod markup in their languages. All of the Parrot based variants could easily incorporate this feature. Paul
