Re: Punctuation Free Quine -- Almost

Bart Lateur <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:12:22 +0200

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On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:34:26 +0100, McGlinchy, Alistair wrote:

>I've managed to get it down to just a comma and
>a dollar.
>
>	print readline open print, $0   

There's the 

	open FOO

trick which means the same as

	open FOO, $FOO

with FOO and $FOO global.

So I can reduce this to

	open 0 and print readline 0

which works. Success!

-- 
	Bart.