Re: Lua quine

[Martin <eden_martin_fuhrspam@...>]

> You might find this thread relevant:
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-05/msg00364.html
Thank you for link, forgot to search before post.

> The 2nd one mentioned there still works (71 chars).
> You can remove the semicolons to make it 69 chars.
>
> s=[[io.write('s=[','[',s,']',']',s)]];io.write('s=[','[',s,']',']',s)
Almost same variant I wrote. May shrink this to

s=[[io.write('s=[[',s,']',']',s)]]io.write('s=[[',s,']',']',s)

62 chars. (In my variant I used print() and ".." so it was 64 chars).

> > From the same thread, you have peter cawley's
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-05/msg00379.html
> Which also still works (44 chars):
>
> s="s=%qprint(s:format(s))"print(s:format(s))
Wow, really smart and sexy! Posted this variant to author of that quine 
page. But it looks like site is abandoned, last news dated 1999-06-21.