Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Nicholas Clark]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:17:42PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 11:10 PM 5/3/2001 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> >as well as licences, can we add CPAN sections for threadsafeness and
> >unicodesafeness, so module authors can declare if they know they have coded
> >to cope with them. [I can see a lot of "unknown"s turning up]
> 
> That would be a sensible thing, I think. (Though I don't know I'd trust 
> anything but a "No", given a lot of the "threadsafe" code I've seen...)

Well, I was going to mark all of my PerlIO stuff as "No, it's not threadsafe"
until proven otherwise. And I'm not competent in threads, so I'm not going
to be the one declaring them safe.

But I'd agree with you that many things might be marked safe in error.
However, I expect that there are other Kwalitee issues that need dealing
with first. [eg causing $500 to move from Schwern to YAS]

Nicholas Clark