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On Jun 14, 2013, at 4:12 AM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > "our" variables, in 5.8, could start taking a ":unique" attribute for use with > data sharing between threads. > > This was made into a no-op in 5.10 and deprecated in 5.12 (perlexperiment's > claims to the contrary). I made a branch, rjbs/not-unique, in which to finally > remove any reference to the attribute from core. It will require synchronizing > with the threads dist. > > 1) Do we want to do this, or are we holding hope for the restorating of some > way to restore this attribute? Afaik, that never really worked and only caused confusion. For sharing data between threads, you need the :shared attribute anyway. It always felt as an premature micro-optimization, much like the "register" prefix was in C. LizThread Previous