in reply to Shared variable not changing?

(I need the possibility to insert commands in the middle of the queue sometimes, so the Thread::Queue doesn't fit.)

The you do not want a 'queue'. A queue is fed from one end and read from the other. How can you ever know what is "the middle of the queue"?

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