Is returning a list broken when using threads? I find the difference in behaviour between calling a subroutine which returns a list in a thread and calling the subroutine directly hard to understand. When calling the subroutine with a thread, I'm only getting the last element of the list back. When I call the subroutine without a thread, I get the whole list. What's going on? The code below is mostly from perlthrtut. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use threads;

$thr = threads->new(\&sub1);

@ReturnData = $thr->join;
print "Thread returned @ReturnData\n";
print "array size is: ", scalar(@ReturnData), "\n";

@ReturnData = sub1();
print "Subroutine returned @ReturnData\n";
print "array size is: ", scalar(@ReturnData), "\n";

sub sub1
{
    return ("Fifty-six", "foo", 23);
}

__END__

Output:

Thread returned 23
array size is: 1
Subroutine returned Fifty-six foo 23
array size is: 3

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In reply to Is returning a list broken when using threads? by beable

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