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- Subject: Re: Lua quine
- From: "Peter Cawley" <lua@...>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:48:18 +0100
Yes, we've all seen the C equivalent
(http://www0.us.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint) that caused the rules to be
changed so that things must be at least one character in length. It
does mean that the zero byte file is both a C quine and a Lua quine at
the same time.
2008/5/13 David Given <dg@cowlark.com>:
> Noé Falzon wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Has anyone written his own yet ?
>
> Of course, in Lua, this:
>
> ---start---
> ---end---
>
> ...is a completely valid quine. (Hey, it prints its source!) Admittedly,
> it's not a very *interesting* one...
>
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