On lördag, augusti 10, 2002, at 08:39 , sungo wrote:

>
> The problem manifests itself in a few ways.  in t/08_errors.t, a 
> message will get dumped to STDERR that looks like " Argument 'Random 
> string here\n' not numeric in comparison at.... ".  if you download 
> POE::Session::Cascading, t/multiplicity/dual.t will simply not run at 
> all. It appears the select loop in Kernel.pm is just not happening.
>
> What it comes down to is that God himself is confused by these errors.  
> It is confirmed, however, that these problems are not present in 5.8.0 
> compiled without ithreads.  So for the time being, it is suggested that 
> if you wish to run POE on perl5.8.0 that you do not use an 
> ithreaded-perl.
>
>

Not so much confused as rather not having the time to find them. The bug 
is that we short circuit the perl peep optimizer somehow.

I propose we incorporate POE as a testing prereq for bleadperl :-)¨

Arthur

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