From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:19:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: clarification about @ISA declaration in perlboot.pod
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clarification about @ISA declaration in perlboot.pod
Patch provided by John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu>
in perlbug #45733.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@33761
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diff --git a/pod/perlboot.pod b/pod/perlboot.pod
index 6e3f5ac..55317c3 100644
--- a/pod/perlboot.pod
+++ b/pod/perlboot.pod
@@ -253,6 +253,11 @@ The easiest is to just spell the package name out:
 
     @Cow::ISA = qw(Animal);
 
+Or declare it as package global variable:
+
+    package Cow;
+    our @ISA = qw(Animal);
+
 Or allow it as an implicitly named package variable:
 
     package Cow;