> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun Jun 23 02:21:24 2002]: > > Having tried to share objects by writing stuff along the lines: > > my $a : shared = new FOOBAR; > > It took a posting to comp.lang.perl.misc before I realised the error > of my ways: > > my $a = new FOOBAR; > share($a); > > I don't think the threads::shared and perlthrtut docs make this clear > enough - > folks coming to ithreads from Java etc are going to finds things a bit > odd to > begin with. > > SOLUTION: More examples in the docs please, esp. regarding object > sharing. Also > maybe trim down some of the general threading info in perlthrtut with > more > focus on perl threads and how to use them idiomatically.
threads::shared and perlthrtut still lacks this additional documentation.
