b> As I said, I don't see a reason to document something that doesn't b> exist. That Perl does not have something another language has b> is not enough reason to do anything.
Maybe there should be a new manpage, perllack, collecting all those things that one would expect "Unix's Swiss Army Chainsaw" to have but are instead done otherwise. awk's $FS and sh's $IFS. sh's shift n. etc. OK never mind.
