Take a look at this code snippets: 
my %h = map {"$_" => 1} qw(id title full_text);

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and 
my %h = map {1; "$_" => 1  } qw(id title full_text);

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The first one doesn't compile, alright, giving me this error: 
syntax error at bug_or_magic.pl line 6, near "} qw(id title full_text)
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whereas, simply adding 1; as the first statement of the map() code block (first parameter), appears to have solved the problem. But, my question is "why"? or "how did it solve it"?

Is this a bug with Perl (I'm running Perl version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd) or an example of a 'magic' behaviour? ;-)

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In reply to Perl bug or magic? by vladb

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