Whitespace after "Re*:" colon sometimes disappearing

[LanX]

something strange is happening (again), and these hick-ups might be a symptom of something worse

• Re:How to check last used date.
• Re:Persistent data structures -- why so complicated?
• Re^2:Persistent data structures -- why so complicated?

What happened to the usual whitespace after the colon?

I already had to fix one of my posts from yesterday, because I blamed myself for erasing it by accident.

But these cases are accumulating.

edit

@pmdevs: see add_re_to_title

[LanX]

that's what's happening at the end of add_re_to_title

return "@parts";

with @parts holding the re-part and the original title.

My theory:

The monastery is running on multiple servers and it seems that global vars like $" are not in sync.

This might also explain some weird effects we had since the last migration.

Question:

The bug in question can be easily fixed by

return join " ",@parts;

shall I patch or do the gods want to check the root problem first?

updates

• patch submitted add_re_to_title - (patch)
• the whitespace also disappeared in this reply ;-)
• does Pair make us share a mod-perl server with other Perl clients?
• patch was accepted