You are not calling your anonymous subs as methods, thus they don't get any invocant ($self). You could call them like this:

my $method = $a->answers->{answers_comments};
$a->answers->$method(
   123,
   134,
   145,
   { 
      order => "desc",
      sort  => "votes",
   },
);

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Then they'll have an invocant.

It would be much saner though to install your methods as genuine methods, not coderefs floating around attached to blessed objects.

# in Answers.pm
use Sub::Name 'subname';
*answers_comments = subname(
   "Net::StackExchange::V2::Answer::answers_comments",
   one_param("answers","comments"),
);

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Now you can call it like a proper method:

$a->answers->answers_comments(
   123,
   134,
   145,
   { 
      order => "desc",
      sort  => "votes",
   },
);

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perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

In reply to Re: is my api wrapper abstraction ok (is it perlish?) by tobyink
in thread is my api wrapper abstraction ok (is it perlish?) by gideondsouza

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