$ perl -e'my $count{abc};'
syntax error at -e line 1, near "$count{abc"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

$ perl -e'my %count; my $count{abc};'
syntax error at -e line 1, near "$count{abc"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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my %count = ( abc => 0 );