pushing into a hash

[Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1]

Does anyone know of a slick way to put an array into a hash?

For example, given

%a=
(
        -a => 1,
        -b => 2,
        -c => 3
);
@b=qw/-x 24 -y 25 -z 26/;

Is there a nice way to merge the hash implied by @b into %a to get

%a=
(
        -a => 1,
        -b => 2,
        -c => 3,
        -x => 24,
        -y => 25,
        -z => 26
);

without doing something like
        for $i (0,2,4)
        {
                $a{$b[$i]}=$b[$i+1]
        }

For the record,
        push %a, @b;
doesn't work  ;)

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