Gentle Monks,

I'm trying to get an "elegant" solution to initializing a hash such that it includes a parsed date (i.e. pieces of the date are easily accessible).

I'd like to do it all within the hash init (no separate statements). I have the following working solution: 

perl -E 'my %stuff=(otherinfo=>"this and that",
     dateinfo=>{local %_,
     map({()} @_{qw|sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst|}
      =localtime(time)),
     %_});
  say "sec=",$stuff{dateinfo}{sec},
      "  year=",$stuff{dateinfo}{year}'

#-- Output --
#sec=2  year=114

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I'm hoping wiser monks could help me get rid of the hack (ab)use of "map", and %_ and make this more "elegant" and/or canonical.

Thank you.

Update: I'm also curious how this would look in perl6. (zip, perhaps ?)

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In reply to localtime parse within hash init by NetWallah

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