Re: threads::shared::share behaves differently when imported or not

At 23:06 +0200 7/30/03, Stas Bekman wrote:
>Let's test it:
>perl-5.8.1-ithread -le 'require threads; print $threads::threads; 
>require threads::shared; print join "\n", \&threads::shared::share, 
>\&threads::shared::share_disabled;'
>1
>CODE(0x80f12e8)
>CODE(0x80f1384)
>
>There are not the same. I didn't figure out yet why, but if I move 
>the require parts into a BEGIN {} block everything works OK:
>
>perl-5.8.1-ithread -le 'BEGIN {require threads; require 
>threads::shared;}; $x; threads::shared::share($x);'
>
>But I can't have them in the BEGIN block, I need to conditionally 
>load them at run time. Does this ring any bells?

This reminds me of a discussion about a year ago about p5p or 
dbi-dev.  Something about not being able to require threads(::shared) 
conditionally at run-time.  You might want to check the archives 
and/or contact Arthur about this.


Liz