While I was optimizing some code, I bumped into a bug. I narrowed it down to the bit below. This basically creates a hash reference, containing 1 plain key/value pair and 2 CGI.pm parameter based pairs. Now none of the two params return something (parameter is optional). The result is however, that the value of the text key is the next key (being session). I produced a Data::Dumper dump of the reference to be sure.
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI qw(param header);
use Data::Dumper;

my @params = qw(main);
my $hash = {"file"=>shift(@params),"text"=>param("lite"),"session"=>pa
+ram("session")};

print header;
print Dumper $hash;

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Output is: $VAR1 = { 'text' => 'session', 'file' => 'main' };
COBOL has been messing with my mind, but I checked and double-checked and I can't find it :(
BTW: I am using Perl 5.6.1

Greetz
Beatnik
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