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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-04-07 21:33:13 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-04-07 21:33:13 +0000
commit0483bc835ac9d7a98c6221c31164adab28d45012 (patch)
tree4c0792a10e62acfdd0c306897722ecb5fd30821b /gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perltoot.pod
parent06b4a8c77def9992257264115d36deba7767935f (diff)
merge local changes into perl-5.8.3
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@@ -940,7 +940,8 @@ comes to the rescue here.
This way it starts looking in my class's @ISA. This only makes sense
from I<within> a method call, though. Don't try to access anything
in SUPER:: from anywhere else, because it doesn't exist outside
-an overridden method call.
+an overridden method call. Note that C<SUPER> refers to the superclass of
+the current package, I<not> to the superclass of C<$self>.
Things are getting a bit complicated here. Have we done anything
we shouldn't? As before, one way to test whether we're designing