# inline hyphens will cause problems
D:\Temp>perl -MData::Dumper -e "use strict; print Dumper({-leading_minus=>1,+plus=>1,in-line-minus=>1})"
Bareword "in" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1.
Bareword "line" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

# what happened to the plus?
D:\Temp>perl -MData::Dumper -e "use strict; print Dumper({-leading_minus=>1,+plus=>1,'in-line-minus'=>1})"
$VAR1 = {
          'in-line-minus' => 1,
          '-leading_minus' => 1,
          'plus' => 1
        };

# this works fine
D:\Temp>perl -MData::Dumper -e "use strict; print Dumper({-leading_minus=>1,'+plus'=>1,'in-line-minus'=>1})"
$VAR1 = {
          'in-line-minus' => 1,
          '-leading_minus' => 1,
          '+plus' => 1
        };

##</code><code>##

{qw( 
     -align        CENTER
     -valign       TOP
     -BGCOLOR      blue
     -font-color   yellow
     -FONT-FAMILY  verdana,arial,helvetica
     -FONT-SIZE    12
)}