You have two problems. One has been addressed in other replies, on your way to pass the parameter to the local, lexical variable.

But a second problem is that prototypes change the way you have to call your sub. With a prototype \%, perl wants you to pass in a hash, and it will pass on a reference to it to the sub. So the call should look like: 

get_conf(%cur_conf);

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With that additional change, your code runs as expected, on my system (perl 5.6.1).

Similar, with a prototype \@, you must pass in an array, not an array reference: 

sub mypush (\@@) {
    my $aref = shift;
    push @$aref, @_;
}

@a = (1);
mypush @a, 2, 3, 4;
print "@a\n";

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Resulting in: 1 2 3 4

In reply to Re: Hashes and Functions by bart
in thread Hashes and Functions by gnubbs

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