Dear Monks,

could someone kindly explain to me, why this innocent little program is syntactically wrong? 

use strict;
use warnings;

my $xnix='X';

sub f {
  {$xnix => 100}->{'X'}
}

print f(),"\n";

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ActiveState Perl complains: 
syntax error at U:\develsv\ARTS\playground\hash_problem.pl line 7, nea
+r "}->"
syntax error at U:\develsv\ARTS\playground\hash_problem.pl line 8, nea
+r "}"

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The problem must be related to the usage in a sub, because the similar 
use strict;
use warnings;
my $xnix='X';
my $f={$xnix => 100}->{'X'};
print $f,"\n";

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works as expected.

-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

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