Say we have:
my %hash = (
    key1 => 'longstring',
    key2 => alter('longstring'),
);

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Basically, I'd like to do something like:
my %hash = (
    key1 => 'longstring',
    key2 => alter($hash{key1}),
);

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This is just out of curiosity. I'm well aware of other ways to accomplish the same. For instance:
my $s = 'longstring';
my %hash = (
    key1 => $s,
    key2 => alter($s),
);

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UPDATE:
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I appreciate the solutions provided thus far, but in order to help everyone see what I'm trying to do, I'll add some more detail:
my %hash = map {$_ => {
                        key1 => 'longstring'.$_.'more',
                        key2 => alter('longstring'.$_.'more')
                      }
               } @list;

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The value of key1 has to be laying around somewhere?!?
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Thanks in advance.

In reply to Is it possible to use key/values of a Hash/Hash ref while it's being initialized? by shiza

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