i seem to have deleted rocco's original mail before responding to it. oh well.
so the question is: newbies seem to not understand $_[KERNEL] and friends. what to do about it? my answer is this: POE::Sweeten::Args, written by Casey West, specifically to alleviate this problem. Let's document it in the core (Don't like this argument style? POE::Sweeten::Args offers two other varieties.). If it really becomes must, lets talk to casey about pulling it into the core with a name like POE::Arguments. basically, i think this is a solved problem and we just need to add more docs about the possibilities. the key here is to add more possibilities not remove old ones. -- Matt Cashner http://eekeek.org eek at eekeek dot org