Assigning anonymous hash to a list

[Matt Lawrence]

Don't you need parentheses on both sides of that assignment? 


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From: gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> 
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To: London PM <london.pm at london.pm.org> 
Subject: Assigning anonymous hash to a list 
 
Can anyone explain why this works:

my $ref = {a => 1,  b => 2, c => 3};
say $ref->{b};     #  Result: 2

... but this doesn't :

my ($str, $ref) = 'text', {a => 1, b => 2, c => 3};
say $ref->{b};   # Result: Use of uninitialized value

Seems a little inconsistent.

gvim