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diff --git a/pod/perlboot.pod b/pod/perlboot.pod index f8fa447847..64ad4e7cae 100644 --- a/pod/perlboot.pod +++ b/pod/perlboot.pod @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ with the animal-specific sound: sub sound { "moooo" } } -Note the added C<@ISA> array. We'll get to that in a minute. +Note the added C<@ISA> array (pronounced "is a"). We'll get to that in a minute. But what happens when we invoke C<< Cow->speak >> now? @@ -232,10 +232,10 @@ gets it on the first try without looking at C<@ISA>. Success! =head2 A few notes about @ISA -This magical C<@ISA> variable (pronounced "is a" not "ice-uh"), has -declared that C<Cow> "is a" C<Animal>. Note that it's an array, -not a simple single value, because on rare occasions, it makes sense -to have more than one parent class searched for the missing methods. +This magical C<@ISA> variable has declared that C<Cow> "is a" C<Animal>. +Note that it's an array, 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> by |