Finest monkish minds of the tubes

Getting to grips with Perl 5.10 I am trying to use a state variable in a little SAX fun I am having. To cut to the chase this bit of code

package XML::SAX::jmeter;
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use Data::Dumper;
use base qw(XML::SAX::Base);

sub empty_record {
    return {
        getting => 'url',
        url     => 'http://',
        match   => '',
        getting => '',
        alarm   => 'no',
    };
}

state %record = %{empty_record}; 
#Initialization of state variables in list 
#context currently forbidden at ...
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I also tried giving the compiler a clue ...

state %record = %{empty_record()};
state %record = %{&empty_record};
state %record = %{&empty_record()};
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all the same problem.

now I am using $record holding the array ref and my code works but I would like to know why I could not get the other option to work.

Cheers,
R.