Yes, there are many other ways of doing this. Now, better is up to you (and the people who will be maintaining your code a year from now).

A few comments (in no particular order)

• Your variable names are horrible. You're not paying per keystroke, nor are you charged per byte in your source file. The compiler doesn't care, but your maintainer will, so spend some time coming up with more descriptive variable names.
• You seem to be calling the same function without passing any parameters in, so it's not clear exactly what kind of decisions you're making. Also, it's not clear what the context is around this snippet.

Before I give alternatives, I'm going to make a few assumptions:

1. You are running this snippet in some loop. The various parameters can change, depending on conditions that the loop iteration will discover
2. notify() (or whatever function(s) you might need to call) do not accept parameters.
3. All these parameters are boolean (true or false).

Some options:

• while (1)
  {
      my %options = discover_my_options();
  
      next unless $options{ma} && $options{sy};
  
      if ($options{a1})
      {
          do_a1();
          next;
      }
  
      if ($options{tr})
      {
          do_tr();
          next;
      }
  
      if ($options{ge})
      {
          do_ge();
          next;
      }
  }
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• my %dispatch_table = (
      a1 => \&do_a1,
      tr => \&do_ge,
      ge => \&do_tr,
  );
  
  while (1)
  {
      my ($skip_iteration, $value) = discover_my_options();
  
      next if $skip_iteration;
  
      my $function = $dispatch_table{$value} || next;
      $function->();
  }
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The first is a cleanup of your existing the code. The second is a way of parameterizing function calls. This isn't something only Perl can do. MUD code has been doing this since the late 80's, and that was (usually) written in C, using funcp's.

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