my $hash;
$hash{foo} = bar;

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Once again, you are not using strict (and you have two different variables named 'hash'). The first line above refers to the lexical scalar variable $hash (which in your second example you use as a hash reference, which is just another type of scalar); the second line, assuming there is nothing else in this program, is referring to the package variable %main::hash. If you wanted to make a lexical hash you would go:
my %hash;
$hash{foo} = 'bar';

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You should use strict, as your second line also uses the bare word 'bar', which gets interpreted as a string, but is a dangerous thing to rely upon, and won't work under strict anyway (and assigining to the undeclared hash is also not allowed under strict). Maybe a look through perldata is in order.

In reply to Re^3: when is "my" not necessary? by runrig
in thread when is "my" not necessary? by argv

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