The usage you show is a xenomorph that escaped into the general population a long time ago and was finally hunted down and extirpated somewhere between 5.8.9 and 5.10.1. It did not reproduce, so you can relax. 

>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le
"print $];
 ;;
 my $self = { qw(rxml rxml_i_am  rxml_ob rxml_ob_it_is) };
 dd $self;
 ;;
 my( $rxml, $ob ) = @{%$self}{qw/rxml rxml_ob/};
 print qq{'$rxml' '$ob'};
"
5.008009
{ rxml => "rxml_i_am", rxml_ob => "rxml_ob_it_is" }

'rxml_i_am' 'rxml_ob_it_is'

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>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le
"print $];
 ;;
 my $self = { qw(rxml rxml_i_am  rxml_ob rxml_ob_it_is) };
 dd $self;
 ;;
 my( $rxml, $ob ) = @{%$self}{qw/rxml rxml_ob/};
 print qq{'$rxml' '$ob'};
"
5.010001
{ rxml => "rxml_i_am", rxml_ob => "rxml_ob_it_is" }

Can't use string ("2/8") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at -
+e line 1.

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In reply to Re: Hash statement problem. by AnomalousMonk
in thread Hash statement problem. by huchister

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