hi, well i have one beginners question. can someone explain to me why does this work, and how it works: 


my %list = (
            pas => 'vau-vau',
            macak => 'mijau',
            krava => 'muuuuu',
            pile => 'pi-pi',
            mago => 'ia-ia'
            );
            
sub zivad {
           my $animal = shift;
           my $list = $list{$animal} || die  "no  animal";
           return $list;
           }
print zivad('mago');

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and it prints out 'ia-ia'. the confusing part is : what does the subroutine loads into @_ does it loads the whole list of just keys or keys and values... and what does it do with that list ?

In reply to how do subroutines work by baxy77bax

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