+Seems to me this could be checked and `join(" ")`'d. :) -- [[anarcat]]
+
+> I wrote a stupid fix for this, which works for getfield, but isn't as good for report. It simply does that `join()`. Here's the patch:
+>
+> [[!format diff """
+--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/field.pm
++++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/field.pm
+@@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ sub field_get_value ($$;@) {
+ {
+ $basevalue = calculated_values($lc_field_name, $page);
+ }
++ if (ref($basevalue) eq "ARRAY") {
++ $basevalue = join(" ", @{$basevalue}); # hack
++ }
+ if (defined $basevalue)
+ {
+ $Cache{$page}{$basename} = $basevalue;
+@@ -360,6 +363,9 @@ sub field_get_value ($$;@) {
+ {
+ $value = $basevalue;
+ }
++ if (ref($value) eq "ARRAY") {
++ $value = join(" ", @{$value}); # hack
++ }
+ if (defined $value)
+ {
+ $Cache{$page}{$lc_field_name} = $value;
+"""]]
+>
+> Seems to me this should be the default, at the very least in getfield. But at least, with the above patch we don't see expanded Perl ref's. ;) --[[anarcat]]