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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-02-08 07:51:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-02-08 07:51:20 +0000 |
| commit | 96f1132bd42b8b1255f98b7e95b1ed46ae0eff5c (patch) | |
| tree | 98fd60cf4edbc25f8e90164ddafe85d76d7ff5c3 /lib/UNIVERSAL.pm | |
| parent | b459063d13fd72246e4b59dcba764d7bacaf12c7 (diff) | |
| download | perl-96f1132bd42b8b1255f98b7e95b1ed46ae0eff5c.tar.gz | |
documentation patches (from Michael Schwern and Yitzchak
Scott-Thoennes)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5040
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/UNIVERSAL.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/UNIVERSAL.pm | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm b/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm index 13cce5853b..f2f1fe9e7a 100644 --- a/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm +++ b/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm @@ -62,19 +62,23 @@ The C<isa> and C<can> methods can also be called as subroutines =item UNIVERSAL::isa ( VAL, TYPE ) -C<isa> returns I<true> if the first argument is a reference and either -of the following statements is true. +C<isa> returns I<true> if one of the following statements is true. =over 8 =item * -C<VAL> is a blessed reference and is blessed into package C<TYPE> -or inherits from package C<TYPE> +C<VAL> is a reference blessed into either package C<TYPE> or a package +which inherits from package C<TYPE>. =item * -C<VAL> is a reference to a C<TYPE> of perl variable (er 'HASH') +C<VAL> is a reference to a C<TYPE> of Perl variable (e.g. 'HASH'). + +=item * + +C<VAL> is the name of a package that inherits from (or is itself) +package C<TYPE>. =back |