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authorBrandon Black <blblack@gmail.com>2007-04-29 12:27:03 -0500
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-04-30 09:22:58 +0000
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Re: mro status, etc
From: "Brandon Black" <blblack@gmail.com> Message-ID: <84621a60704291527y1b39be37l221ef66e4c828f66@mail.gmail.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31107
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@@ -238,10 +238,10 @@ 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>.
-Typically, each C<@ISA> has only one element (multiple elements means
-multiple inheritance and multiple headaches), so we get a nice tree of
-inheritance.
+search is recursive, depth-first, left-to-right in each C<@ISA> by
+default (see L<mro> for alternatives). Typically, each C<@ISA> has
+only one element (multiple elements means multiple inheritance and
+multiple headaches), so we get a nice tree of inheritance.
When we turn on C<use strict>, we'll get complaints on C<@ISA>, since
it's not a variable containing an explicit package name, nor is it a