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

Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> 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.

I found the following thread.
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2002-06/thrd7.html#00575
Was it something along the lines?

 > You might want to check the archives and/or contact Arthur about this.

I hope that he still listens to this list, even though now riding a ponie ;)

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