Re: HTML::Parser is not thread-safe

> In article <AC620479-1A75-4311-B2B0-0CBC9833B8D3[at]cpan.org>,
>  sprout[at]cpan.org (Father Chrysostomos) wrote:
> > It seems to work fine now, except that, if a Parser object is  
> created
> > within a thread *other than* the main thread, perl complains about
> > leaking scalars when the program exits.
> >
> > $ perl -MHTML::Parser -Mthreads -le'(async{new HTML::Parser})->join;
> > END { print "end" }'
> > end
> > Scalars leaked: 1
>
> However, perldoc threads says:
> > Returning objects from threads does not work.
>
> So don't do what you did in that example. :-)
>
>
> /Bo Lindbergh
>
I'm sorry. You're right. My example was badly written. If I put ";  
return" before the closing brace, it works.

Father Chrysostomos