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authorDave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>2012-02-14 10:44:02 -0600
committerDave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>2012-02-14 10:44:02 -0600
commit0c9258c71ce11157551f78e3960bf19e1d0ab307 (patch)
tree010aa457cc39e013ed9d4dfeb058e05bf5bb4790 /pod/perlobj.pod
parent966af81c54b925d686a4ab2993f4241b4d34c389 (diff)
downloadperl-0c9258c71ce11157551f78e3960bf19e1d0ab307.tar.gz
Clarify that @ISA contains scalars which are strings.
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@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ parent classes and make sure that the package doesn't inherit from
itself.
However the parent classes are set, the package's C<@ISA> variable will
-contain a list of those parents.
+contain a list of those parents. This is simply a list of scalars, each
+of which is a string that corresponds to a package name.
All classes inherit from the L<UNIVERSAL> class implicitly. The
L<UNIVERSAL> class is implemented by the Perl core, and provides