What are you buying with Quantum:: that I don't get with my plain $distribution->[ rand @$distribution ]? Outside of having a really bloated module?

package Quaint;
use strict;
use Tie::Scalar;
use Carp;
use UNIVERSAL 'isa';

sub TIESCALAR {
    my ( $pck, @distribution )  = @_;
    croak "No distribution given." unless @distribution;

    bless { data  => \ @distribution,
            state => $state },
          $pck;
}

sub FETCH {
    my $self = shift;
    my $distribution = $self->{distribution};
    
    $distribution->[ rand @$distribution ];
}

sub STORE {
    my ( $self, $distref ) = @_;
    croak "No distribution given."
        unless isa($distref, "ARRAY");
    my $orig_dist = $self->{'distribution'};

    push @$orig_dist, @$distref;
}

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In reply to Re: Tied and Entangled, Quantum fun. by diotalevi
in thread Tied and Entangled, Quantum fun. by pernod

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