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The document discusses the documentation (POD) format used in Perl 5 and the proposed changes and new features of the POD format for Perl 6. Some key points include: - POD (Plain Old Documentation) was introduced in Perl 5 and supported by the perldoc tool for documenting Perl code and modules. - The POD format for Perl 6 proposes three main types of blocks - delimited blocks, paragraph blocks, and abbreviated blocks. Delimited blocks are bounded by begin/end tags with an identifier. - Perl 6 POD blocks can include configuration parameters for things like specifying data types, widths, or optional/required fields. - The Perl 6 POD format aims to address some limitations of the Perl 5









































