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authorMichael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>2009-04-07 14:59:21 -0500
committerYves Orton <demerphq@gmail.com>2009-04-07 23:41:30 +0200
commit4dfdcbc906383f5658d74d23b9341b7a5cb21891 (patch)
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parent074a7adc8d22bbab6ad0e4d049724a0cde4d0a02 (diff)
downloadperl-4dfdcbc906383f5658d74d23b9341b7a5cb21891.tar.gz
Docs: Minor reorganization.
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--pod/perlboot.pod10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlboot.pod b/pod/perlboot.pod
index f8fa447847..64ad4e7cae 100644
--- a/pod/perlboot.pod
+++ b/pod/perlboot.pod
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ with the animal-specific sound:
sub sound { "moooo" }
}
-Note the added C<@ISA> array. We'll get to that in a minute.
+Note the added C<@ISA> array (pronounced "is a"). We'll get to that in a minute.
But what happens when we invoke C<< Cow->speak >> now?
@@ -232,10 +232,10 @@ gets it on the first try without looking at C<@ISA>. Success!
=head2 A few notes about @ISA
-This magical C<@ISA> variable (pronounced "is a" not "ice-uh"), has
-declared that C<Cow> "is a" C<Animal>. Note that it's an array,
-not a simple single value, because on rare occasions, it makes sense
-to have more than one parent class searched for the missing methods.
+This magical C<@ISA> variable has declared that C<Cow> "is a" C<Animal>.
+Note that it's an array, not a simple single value, because on rare
+occasions, it makes sense to have more than one parent class searched
+for the missing methods.
If C<Animal> also had an C<@ISA>, then we'd check there too. The
search is recursive, depth-first, left-to-right in each C<@ISA> by