Seems to be a problem with your build of perl rather than perl itself, in that I don't get any errors (other than the missing semicolons) running your snippet under 5.8.2/AS 808 

This is perl, v5.8.2 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
Binary build 808 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.
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That said, your snippet obviously isn't a direct c&p of your failing code (given the syntax errors), and the partial error message you give "Invalid value for shared scalar at..." is usually a compile or runtime error, not a crash. So maybe you should post a more complete example? 

P:\test>perl -Mthreads -mthreads::shared
my( %h ) : shared;
my $var = 'hello';
$h{ $var } = 123;
print $h{hello};
^Z
123

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In reply to Re: threads::shared hash by BrowserUk
in thread threads::shared hash by fxmakers

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