The reason why I am glad about them, is so that I can use it as something to point people to. Perlmonks is a web-based medium, you can't just say "use perldoc blah to read the docs", I prefer real web links pointing directly into the docs you are currently talking about. The finer I can pinpoint the relevant section, the better, for example, I wish Quote and Quote-like Operators in perlop had subanchors, as for now, it's a bit of a largish block.
It's also nice to have something to point to, in e-mail for example, to people who normally aren't Perl users, and thus, don't have perl installed.
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