{ a => 1, b => 2 } is being passed through Data::Dumper and then eval'ed back into a hash. This works fine, until strict comes into the picture. When strictness is enabled, the code fails with the error: "Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference". How can you make this work and still keep strictness for all of the code.
perl -Mstrict -MData::Dumper -e 'my %x = %{eval Dumper({ a => 1, b => 2 })}';
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