Sort on boredom

[Ovid]

Well, totally bored here at work. I have a bunch of VBScript code (ugh!) that's sitting here doing nothing until I get more specs. Thought I would use the time to play around with a problem suggested in another node. Essentially, the author wanted to sort a list by frequency of the items in that list. Having spare time and a huge desire to maintain my limited Perl skills, I wrote the following snippet:

use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
my @vals = qw( 1 2 3 1 3 3 3 43 bob 2 bob 6 2 );
my %freqs;

$freqs{$_}++ foreach @vals;

my @sorted = map  { $_->[0] }
             sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
             map  { [ $_, $freqs{ $_ } ] } keys %freqs;

print Dumper( \@sorted );

Is there any way of eliminating the temporary variable %freqs? I hate synthetic code (code that solves a coding problem, not the problem the program is designed for) and it's bugging me. Or is this one of those age-old "FAQ" questions that I should already know the answer to?

Yeah, I know. It's a trivial post, but like I said, I am bored out of my skull here.

Incidentally, I am returning to the US in April (and will be programming in Perl again!!!!) and will be bidding a sad farewell to my newfound friends here in the Netherlands: kudra, ar0n, and h0mee (who was here visiting).

Cheers,
Ovid

Update: Once again, tilly makes me feel stupid :)

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