Esteemed monks,

After reading about the Quantum::Entanglement module, I thought I should give it a try. It might just do exactly what I need for some noisemaking, but my first attempt at using it for anything ended in dismal failure.

I used ppm to install the module on my ActiveState installation on a Win XP box. I tried to make a simple example, taken from the above mentioned article. Here's what I got:

#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Quantum::Entanglement;

my $die = entangle( 1=>1, 1=>2, 1=>3,
            1=>4, 1=>5, 1=>6 );

foreach my $i ( 1 .. 5 ) {
    print "$die ";
}
print "\n";

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My first run of this gave me: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, which surprised me. I tried again, and got 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

I had expected $die to collapse to different values each time I observed it, but it seems to me that it is only collapsed once during each run. What am I missing here?

pernod
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