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$t = async {block};

Creates a new thread to execute the block that follows it. The block is treated as an anonymous subroutine (and therefore has a semicolon after the closing bracket). Returns a thread object. async isn't exported by default, so you can either specify use Thread qw(async); or fully qualify the name (Thread::async).


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