I think CGI implements this behavior so that param() can support both scalar and list context. In list context it returns all the values for a parameter and in scalar context it just returns the first value.
If it returned undef for unknown parameters, then this wouldn't work:
my @vals = $q->param('...');
print Dumper(\@vals); # would print [ undef ] not [ ]
That is, @vals would not be the empty list but a list containing undef.
A work-around is to use scalar:
my $var = { first => scalar $q->param('first'),
second => scalar $q->param('second'),
};
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