Hi perl monks.I am new to perl programming .I am a beginner.Here is my first question

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $variable=total(1,2,3);
print"the variable is :$variable\n";
sub total
{
  my $element=0;
    foreach (@_)
    {
       $element=$element+$_;
    }
element;
}
Output is:
The variable is : 6

Now i changed the code to
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $variable=total(1,2,3);
print"the variable is :$variable\n";
sub total
{
  my $element=0;
    foreach (@_)
    {
       $element=$element+$_;
    }
element;
print"the value of element is:$element\n";
}

The output is
the value of element is:6
the variable is :1
why the variable in this case is not showing as 6 is my question.
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