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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