Re: passing subroutine arguments directly into a hash

[wog]

One way of doing this assignment would be to use a hash slice on the left hand side of an assignment from @_:

sub f {
  my %hash;
  @hash{ qw/ h s d / } = @_;
  # ...
}

(That hash slice is equivlent to ($hash{h}, $hash{s}, $hash{d}).)