I'd travel to the ends of time For you, my one, my only love. I'd force the sun to leave its track (If you were lost) to fetch you back. I'd suck the juices from a lime, I'd re-write Moby Dick in rhyme, I'd happily commit a crime, For you my dearest darling dove. I'd do it all, and more beside; Now *would* you take the trash outside? #### I've taken the trash out innumerable times, I've taken the trash out in inclement climes, I've taken the trash out 'cuz that's what I do, But I won't take the trash out when you tell me to. #### print STDOUT q Just another Perl Hacker, unless $spring #### print standard out queue Just another Perl Hacker, unless dollar spring #### Error messages strewn across my terminal. A vein starts to throb. Their reproof adds the injury of insult to the shame of failure. When a program dies what you need is a moment of serenity. The Coy.pm module brings tranquillity to your debugging. The module alters the behaviour of die and warn (and croak and carp). It also provides transcend and enlighten -- two Zen alternatives. Like Carp.pm, Coy reports errors from the caller's point-of-view. But it prefaces the bad news of failure with a soothing haiku. #### sub summer { my $sum; $sum += $_ for @_; $sum } print summer (split);