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Context? (Score:2)
Have you checked the context that the like_xpath() call is invoked in? It looks to me like it should be in void context, and probably, it isn't.
This often bites me with Data::Dump::Streamer, where Dump() needs to be in void context to print anything. And a bare Dump statement, more often than not, is in scalar or list context.
Argh! I wish Perl required explicit return (as in Javascript) to return values, so context of statements would always be void unless explicitly overridden.
Re:Context? (Score:2)
The context in which it's called doesn't matter. I'm reading the code now and it shouldn't make any difference. Of course, sometimes just adding a comment to the like_xpath code causes these tests to pass, but only in the example above. In the actual test, it still fails about 1 out of 5 runs.
Well, that's not quite true. It now fails about 1 out of 8 runs after a fresh checkout. However, the failure above stopped failing as soon as I checked it in to source control and checked it back out again.
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