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| author | Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> | 2022-09-14 13:51:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Yves Orton <demerphq@gmail.com> | 2023-02-08 16:58:32 +0800 |
| commit | efa8f708cd0da7c71bb71920a47b545bd07bc28a (patch) | |
| tree | 35dac76b1b17056bccf287879ba767ee3bcc165d /pod/perlmroapi.pod | |
| parent | bd90fa412bb2eb27ffa23a0e439350a39847521e (diff) | |
| download | perl-efa8f708cd0da7c71bb71920a47b545bd07bc28a.tar.gz | |
pod/perlmroapi.pod - document linear MRO function return type.
Small docs clarification to point out that the linear MRO function returns a
list of strings
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlmroapi.pod b/pod/perlmroapi.pod index ad6d1e3eb1..2345ca30a0 100644 --- a/pod/perlmroapi.pod +++ b/pod/perlmroapi.pod @@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ a I<level> of 0. The core always sets I<level> to 0 when it calls your function - the parameter is provided to allow your implementation to track depth if it needs to recurse. -The function should return a reference to an array containing the parent -classes in order. The names of the classes should be the result of calling -C<HvENAME()> on the stash. In those cases where C<HvENAME()> returns null, -C<HvNAME()> should be used instead. +The function should return a reference to an array containing string SVs +giving the names of parent classes in order. The names of the classes should +be the result of calling C<HvENAME()> on the stash. In those cases where +C<HvENAME()> returns null, C<HvNAME()> should be used instead. The caller is responsible for incrementing the reference count of the array returned if it wants to keep the structure. Hence, if you have created a |