From 52f6be81cb8b06d095ee9d1b300b90b08e9ed523 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: qodelicious <162776175+qodelicious@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:07:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify ReflectionAttribute::IS_INSTANCEOF description

---
 reference/reflection/reflectionattribute.xml | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/reference/reflection/reflectionattribute.xml b/reference/reflection/reflectionattribute.xml
index 95790fd5fd17..f938d74fd9f7 100644
--- a/reference/reflection/reflectionattribute.xml
+++ b/reference/reflection/reflectionattribute.xml
@@ -81,10 +81,16 @@
        <type>int</type>
       </term>
       <listitem>
-       <para>
+       <simpara>
         Retrieve attributes using an
         <parameter>instanceof</parameter> check.
-       </para>
+        Used as the <parameter>flags</parameter> argument of
+        <methodname>ReflectionClass::getAttributes</methodname> and the
+        equivalent methods of the other reflection classes. When set, the
+        <parameter>name</parameter> argument matches attributes whose class is
+        the given class or a subclass of it, or implements the given
+        interface, instead of only matching the exact class name.
+       </simpara>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>