Oh I was sure the syntax was ok in both forms. I'm guessing it's a GLR revision. It's indeed better to to reserve {} for scalar containers. Notice how in Per

Oh I was sure the syntax was ok in both forms. I'm guessing it's a GLR revision. It's indeed better to to reserve {} for scalar containers. Notice how in Perl 6 you get a nice error message: $ perl6 -e 'my %h = { foo => "bar" };' Potential difficulties: Useless use of hash composer on right side of hash assignment; did you mean := instead? at -e:1 ------> my %h = { foo => "bar" }⏏;