New to threads, and really new to the deeper parts of perl, been using it for years as a all purpose scripting solution, but just now getting into embedding it and using it for rapid prototyping. Basic outline of program, I have a controller which will be pretty much the heart of the program, setting things up, and several classes, one in particular that we'll call Downloader. I'm trying to make this multithreaded, so that I can have multiple downloaders going at once, but Downloader being a class instance is throwing me off. It may just be syntax, but my googling didn't produce any examples of doing threading with a class instance. 
my $downloader = eval { new Downloader();} or die (@_);

my $thread1 = threads->new($downloader->fetch,
"http://www.webaddress.com", \%siteHash);

$thread1->join;

[download]
I've tried putting \& in front of downloader->fetch, as well as putting it in front of fetch itself, but no luck. Right now its just executing the fetch function in downloader and generating an error : thread failed to start: Undefined subroutine &main::http://www.webaddress.com called Any help appreciated.

In reply to Object Functions and Threading by ramblinpeck

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