Trimming down, even before I have a small case that shows the error I have something else wrong. Here're two files that give me different results on 5.8.8 versus 5.10. I think I've already done something wrong at this level of simplicity that I should figure out before building the example up farther.

use strict;
use warnings;

use configthing qw();

our configthing $cfg = new configthing;

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper $cfg;

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Then for "configthing.pm"...

package configthing;

use strict;
use warnings;

use fields qw(
  a
  b
  c
  d
);

our %DEFAULTS = (
    b => 'default for b',
    c => 'default for c'
);

1;

sub new {
    my $this = shift;

    unless (ref $this) {
        $this = fields::new($this);
    }

    our %FIELDS;
    foreach my $k ( keys(%FIELDS) ) {
        $this->{$k} = '' unless defined($this->{$k});
    }

    $this->{a} = 'set at initialization';

    foreach my $k ( keys(%DEFAULTS) ) {
        $this->{$k} = $DEFAULTS{$k};
    }

    return $this;
}

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With 5.8.8 I get

$VAR1 = bless( [
                 bless( {
                          'c' => 3,
                          'a' => 1,
                          'b' => 2,
                          'd' => 4
                        }, 'pseudohash' ),
                 'set at initialization',
                 'default for b',
                 'default for c',
                 ''
               ], 'configthing' );

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And 5.10.1 gives me:

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'c' => 'default for c',
                 'a' => 'set at initialization',
                 'b' => 'default for b',
                 'd' => ''
               }, 'configthing' );

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In reply to Re^2: Help with cause of "Modification of a read-only value attempted at ..." by shriken
in thread Help with cause of "Modification of a read-only value attempted at ..." by shriken

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