My guess is that one of the modules it uses exports three constants, like:

use constant {
    OBJECT => 0,
    ARG0 => 1,
    ARG1 => 2,
};
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Then, your line is essentially like:

    my ($self, $body, $wheel_id) = @_[0, 1, 2];
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UPDATE: see POE::Session