Ok, I have a package named Bob that looks like this: 
package Bob;

my $thingy = {One => 1, Two => 2};

sub doit {
    my $key = '{One}';
    eval "print \"thingy one is \$thingy->$key\n\"";
    #my $x = $thingy;
}

1;

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And I use it in a program like so: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Bob;
Bob->doit();

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I get the following when I run the program: 
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at (eval 1) 
+line 1.
thingy one is

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However, if I uncomment the "my $x" line in Bob.pm, it works fine: 
thingy one is 1

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I'm assuming this is a bug in perl. Is it fixed in 5.8.8?

I'm running perl 5.8.6 under Linux (FC4).

Thanks!

In reply to "eval" and "my" variable weirdness by splinky

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