Re^3: mystery function & Odd number of elements in anonymous hash

[Corion]

The fat comma is just that, a fat comma. It stringifies the argument on its lefthand side if it is a bareword.

Personally, I would use something like:

my $foo = func();
my $hashref = {
    foo => $foo,
    bar => $bar
};

[Anonymous Monk]

Thank you for your insights. I ended up writing a wrapper function to force context.