in reply to What does the dash before hash assignment means?

No special meaning; a hash key is a string, and the dash is merely part of the string:

19:07 >perl -MData::Dump -wE "my %h = (-url => 'abcd'); dd %h;"
("-url", "abcd")
19:08 >

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Hope that helps,

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