Grinnz/perldoc-browser

Improved functions index

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The functions index is directly lifted from perlfunc. This is a good by-category listing but it does not provide a scannable listing with descriptions. It must still be generated from perlfunc from each version so as not to require maintaining our own documentation, but a more useful listing may be possible. The first sentence of the function description may be suitable for most functions but special cases would be needed.

Actually perlfunc contains metadata for Pod::Functions that can be directly used for such an index.

Pod::Functions only exists in Perl 5.8.0 and newer, and the metadata in perlfunc only exists since 5.16.0.