Punctuation Free Quine -- Almost

"McGlinchy, Alistair" <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:34:26 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.fun
Message-ID <FE55E8E9972BB949B56DD7CABD5AB7CA0163396C@MSHVSMNSEXP8002.mnsexchange.adroot.marksandspencer.com>
Hi All,

Here's a wee bit of fun I've been having.  Its sort of a golf problem,
but not. All of the perl quine [*1] examples I've seen [*2] have large
amounts of punctuation.  I've managed to get it down to just a comma and
a dollar.

	print readline open print, $0   

Any offers?

Alistair


[*1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine
[*2] http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/self_perl.txt


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