Alright, I should have seen that, or at least tried it. The problem is that create is called before join (obviously) so the way the return of join will be used is unknown at that time. threads allows you to indicate in which context you want your sub to be called (void, scalar or list) (and if you didn't know that, you probably always called your sub in a scalar context), but not to indicate what will be done of the returned value(s).

Unless the sub passed as a parameter to threads->create can be your tail method, you could just check (caller 1)[3] eq '(eval)' before trying to use want.

If this sub can be your tail method, be sure to add {'void' => 1} as the first parameter to threads->create when you're not going to use the return of join(). Then you could have: print " ..and Im a tail!\n" unless defined wantarray and want "OBJECT"

This is probably a bad idea if you want to be able to use the return value of your method, which can be called by thread->create, and can be the tail method. Why are trying to do that by the way? Maybe you've just set foot on a XY Problem and could avoid using want altogether.

In reply to Re^3: Finding the end of a method-chain by Eily
in thread Finding the end of a method-chain by std3rr

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