From: ts Date: 2002-04-12T00:45:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Thread safety of Queue.push >>>>> "M" == Mathew Johnston writes: M> One semi-related question... when I do a regexp with =~, and try to M> access the $N variables created, is there risk of those variable having M> been changed by another thread also doing a regexp? I ask this because no, M> they're global variables, not local (as local vars created within the no, M> thread would be seperate from other threads' local variables). $_ and $~ are local, and thread local variables. Guy Decoux