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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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@@ -151,8 +151,9 @@ There is a special array within each package called @ISA, which says
where else to look for a method if you can't find it in the current
package. This is how Perl implements inheritance. Each element of the
@ISA array is just the name of another package that happens to be a
-class package. The classes are searched (depth first) for missing
-methods in the order that they occur in @ISA. The classes accessible
+class package. The classes are searched for missing methods in
+depth-first, left-to-right order by default (see L<mro> for alternative
+search order and other in-depth information). The classes accessible
through @ISA are known as base classes of the current class.
All classes implicitly inherit from class C<UNIVERSAL> as their