in reply to With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As poetry goes, I much prefer the original ;-)

Would I love a dream like this to come true!

In fact I liked it so much that I ran it as a perl script (without use strict, though).

Quoth perl:
Bareword found where operator expected at H:\devperl\perlmonks\Noname1 +.pl line 5, near "? And what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And" (Missing operator before And?) Unquoted string "dream" may clash with future reserved word at H:\devp +erl\perlmonks\Noname1.pl line 5.?) Unquoted string "flower" may clash with future reserved word at H:\dev +perl\perlmonks\Noname1.pl line 5.?) syntax error at H:\devperl\perlmonks\Noname1.pl line 5, near "? And wh +at if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what " Execution of H:\devperl\perlmonks\Noname1.pl aborted due to compilatio +n errors.
Not too bad, only 4 compilation errors.
And think of future perl reserved words "flower" and "dream"!

Rudif