Re: Punctuation Free Quine -- Almost

[email protected] (Troy DeJongh) Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:27:08 -0500
Newsgroups perl.fwp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "DM" == Dave Mitchell <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>   DM> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 03:11:29PM +0100, McGlinchy, Alistair wrote:
>   >> Dave,
>   >> 
>   >> > s zzs vvxv
>   >> > and s ZVZchr 122Zie
>   >> > and s ZVZchr 122Zie
>   >> > and s ZVZchr 122Zie
>   >> > and s SxSlcfirstSe
>   >> > and s YZZxZYvvxvYi and print
>   >> > z
>   >> > and s ZVZchr 122Zie
>   >> > and s ZVZchr 122Zie
>   >> > and s ZVZchr 122Zie
>   >> > and s SxSlcfirstSe
>   >> > and s YZZxZYvvxvYi and print
>   >> 
>   >> Wicked! That certainly fits the bill, and took a good lunch break to
>   >> work out how it works.  I like the use of lcfirst (or ucfirst if needed)
>   >> as a punctuation synonym for $_ ; very clever.  
>   >> 
>   >> Is this an original?
> 
>   DM> Yes, I spent yesterday evening working it up when I should have been doing
>   DM> other things ;-)
> 

[snip]

> and this would be cool to send to the quine site. i wonder if quines in
> other langs could be done punctuation free?

It might also be worth posting as one of the examples at:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine

--Troy

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