Hello! Dancer manual (pod) tells us about `path` function: "Concatenates multiple paths together, without worrying about the underlying operating system". But unfortunately this isn't true :( In reality &Dancer::path is &File::Spec::catfile wrapped by &Cwd::realpath. And &Cwd::realpath is worked with BSD realpath (3) semantic: "All but the last component of a pathname must exist when realpath() is called." Assume that '/tmp' directory is exists and empty. Then this Dancer application code: my $x = path "/tmp","nonexistent"; my $y = path "/tmp","nonexistent","foo"; will assign "/tmp/nonexistent" to $x, but undef to $y. This behavior may be slightly unexpected :) So if you create variable with nonexistence path you may get defined or undefined string depending on missing subdirectories number. I am not sure what's the best, but (imho) ones should be fixed: Dancer pod or Dancer::path :) -- Cheers, Oleg A. Mamontov mailto: oleg@mamontov.net jabber: lonerr@charla.mamontov.net icq uin: 79-521-617 cell: +7-903-798-1352