From: Artur Bergman <sky@nanisky.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 21:18:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Documentation of async
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Documentation of async

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16454
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diff --git a/ext/threads/threads.pm b/ext/threads/threads.pm
index f76d55b..4aba309 100755
--- a/ext/threads/threads.pm
+++ b/ext/threads/threads.pm
@@ -167,6 +167,13 @@ However this is highly depending on the underlying thread implmentation.
 
 This will return a list of all non joined, non detached threads.
 
+=item async BLOCK;
+
+C<async> creates a thread to execute the block immediately following
+it.  This block is treated as an anonymous sub, and so must have a
+semi-colon after the closing brace. Like C<threads-&gt;new>, C<async>
+returns a thread object.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 WARNINGS