'Why do I need to touch Hash if assigned via map?

When I do this it works (these are the last 4 lines before the end of a method TWEAK. However, my first attempt had no line #3 and failed because %!columns was empty...

    constant @alphi = 'A'..Inf;

    1 if ! %!columns {
    2     @alphi[0..^@!data.first.elems].map( {%!columns{$_} = $++} );
    3     %!columns  #<== have to "touch" %!columns to avoid empty hash
    4 }

I am cool that the issue is fixed by "touching" the attribute ... but seems like magic ... can anyone explain why?

raku


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