[Mojolicious] Understanding shift->

[john]

This probably a perl question so if I should ask elsewhere let me know...

In looking at the Mojo::Pg blog example and in recent addition of db
method to Mojo::Pg::PubSub I see use of shift->.


From Mojo::Pg::PubSub documentation:

# Reconnect immediately
$pubsub->unsubscribe('disconnect')->on(disconnect => sub { shift->db });

Or from the blog example:

$self->helper(pg => sub { state $pg = Mojo::Pg->new(shift->config('pg')) });

This doesn't work in my code and I replace "shift" with "$self".   That
appears to be working.   Also, I can't reconcile using shift in this way
and what the perl documentation says about it but could get over this if
it worked.

What am I missing here?

Thanks,

John

[Dan Book]

The shift function removes and returns the first argument from @_ (since
there's no array passed for it to shift from) in a sub. It's used this way
because the first argument to these subs is the invocant/object. You can
replace it with $_[0] to get the first argument without removing it. You
should not use $self from outside unless necessary because that may create
a circular reference and leak memory.

-Dan

Post by john
This probably a perl question so if I should ask elsewhere let me know...
In looking at the Mojo::Pg blog example and in recent addition of db
method to Mojo::Pg::PubSub I see use of shift->.
# Reconnect immediately
$pubsub->unsubscribe('disconnect')->on(disconnect => sub { shift->db });
$self->helper(pg => sub { state $pg = Mojo::Pg->new(shift->config('pg')) });
This doesn't work in my code and I replace "shift" with "$self". That
appears to be working. Also, I can't reconcile using shift in this way
and what the perl documentation says about it but could get over this if
it worked.
What am I missing here?
Thanks,
John
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[john]

(since there's no array passed for it to shift from) in a sub. It's
used this way because the first argument to these subs is the
invocant/object. You can replace it with $_[0] to get the first
argument without removing it. You should not use $self from outside
unless necessary because that may create a circular reference and leak
memory.

Thanks.  I totally missed that it was being used in a sub in those cases.