See my first example. It appears that what looks like a string to a fat comma is diffferent to what looks like a string to a leading hyphen.

my %a = (keys   => 'v1',
         values => 'v2');
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gets stringified correctly, but:

my %a = (-keys   , 'v1',
         -values , 'v2');
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does not.