an 'anchor' command is missing from Pod

Hello,

I think that a possibility to add a label without associating it to
actual text is missing from the Pod language (unless I missed something).
Indeed labels are either associated with =item or =head*.  I think that
it is unfortunate, as one may want to use a reference name different from
the output text.  This happens, for example in perlfunc.pod where there
is

=item open FILEHANDLE,EXPR

=item open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR

=item open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST
...

It would be nice to be able to have a label called open which would not
need to appear in the output.  It even appears to me to be a kind of 
limitation/inconsistency of the language because it may force to write
suboptimal documents for the sake of being able to do references.

It could be along

=anchor open

if it is a Command Paragraph, or A<open> if it is a formatting command.

Then it would be translated to <a name="..."></a> in html, <anchor ..>
in docbook, \label{..} in LaTeX, @anchor{..} in texinfo...


Note: I am not sure this is the place to ask for changes in Pod, but it
seems to be a good place for that.

-- 
Pat