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The Case of the Overloaded Curlys

When I entered our rooms in Paris after a day on the boulevards, I found C. Auguste Dupin at his desk contemplating a scrap of paper. "A problem?" I asked.

"A death. And a rather gruesome one, n'est-ce pas?" he replied, handing me the paper. On it I saw:


$ perl -e '%h = map { "-$_" => 1 } qw{ foo bar };'
Not enough arguments for map at -e line 1, near "} qw{ foo bar }"
syntax error at -e line 1, near "} qw{ foo bar }"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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