Re^2: threads->create hangs

[SimonPratt]

I don't read it as a warning to not use threads. I read it as a warning that threads are not light-weight and people writing code using them are not likely to get much help.

Through my own experience in writing threaded programs, I find the warning to be absolutely valid, although I suspect the number of people becoming proficient at using threads has grown somewhat since the warning was first written.

[anonymized user 468275]

Fair enough. Perhaps I am setting too high an expectation on the docs. The systems I worked on most recently have too trivial a usage of threads to be pushing the boundaries. So perhaps I should try creating a test set (destruction-testing ;)) for all the methods in the threads space - that might reveal whether there are specific problems that could be documented away - in my world there is such thing as a documentation problem i.e. what appears to be a bug isn't so long as it's documented properly - but for now I can't get past the fact that although some others clearly see it differently, I stare at those words and it's as if it is saying to me: 'abandon hope all ye who enter here!' - I can't remember anything else in perldoc that reads back at me anything even close to that.