Ok, I have a package named Bob that looks like this:

package Bob;

my $thingy = {One => 1, Two => 2};

sub doit {
    my $key = '{One}';
    eval "print \"thingy one is \$thingy->$key\n\"";
    #my $x = $thingy;
}

1;
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And I use it in a program like so:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Bob;
Bob->doit();
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I get the following when I run the program:

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at (eval 1) 
+line 1.
thingy one is
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However, if I uncomment the "my $x" line in Bob.pm, it works fine:

thingy one is 1
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I'm assuming this is a bug in perl. Is it fixed in 5.8.8?

I'm running perl 5.8.6 under Linux (FC4).

Thanks!