Don't suppose you know how to get the name of a function represented by a reference? It would make things clean in my head :)
-----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Mattijsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 July 2002 19:51 To: Ray Hilton; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: iThreads and CODE references At 07:29 PM 7/22/02 +0100, Ray Hilton wrote: >After significant hair loss, I have come to understand that CODE >refrences are not sharable in iThreads. From what I can see, this is >because each thread will have its own refrence to that function as they >are all copies. Ok, fair enough, so what I will need to do is somehow >retrive the function name, and then pass that onto the other thread, so >that can recover its reference in its own thread-scope. >Any ideas on how to do this? I could pass down the function name >explicitly, but it seems a bit messy. That's the only way I know how, really (and _please_ someone correct me if I'm wrong ;-) You could also send the actual code as source to the other side and eval() it, but that would be _really_ yucky. Or similarly use Data::Dumper and/or B::Deparse for an already compiled subroutine. Passing the name of the subroutine is by _far_ the cleanest thing to do at the current state of things. Liz
