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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlobj.pod b/pod/perlobj.pod
index 1eaeacdd13..f1cd681f34 100644
--- a/pod/perlobj.pod
+++ b/pod/perlobj.pod
@@ -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