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in reply to Re: map syntax error -- weird
in thread map syntax error -- weird

Why does this work? (same result as your proposals)

my %opt;
my @vals = qw(title artist album);
my @opts = map { "$_"."=s" => \$opt{$_} } @vals;
print @opts;

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UPDATE: Guess: Because there is some statement in there that needs to be executed rather than a static string only?

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