I've CC'd p5p for enlightenment & simplified your code to the following:...
I understand the errors, but not the difference in behaviour. I think this is DWIMish bug in perl, but let's see what more enlightened minds say before reporting it as such.
My money is on
no warnings;
-Sx-
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