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> My educated guess is that it's because autovivification generally happens in an lvalue context.

Good guess, but I can't see lvalue in these inconsistent results when aliasing:

Re^2: unexpected modify hash in a distance with grep { $_ } (inconsistent behaviour of aliasing)

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My educated guess is rather that dave_the_m will digg into the sources now and point us to a (known?) glitch! ;-)

Cheers Rolf
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