From: tromp@... (John Tromp)
Date: 2001-09-01T08:50:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20648] ruby quine

The web page
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm

shows self-reproducing programs, aka "quine"s for many languages,
but Ruby is conspicuously missing.
What would be the shortest Ruby program to output itself?

I don't suppose it could be as short as in python? :
l='l=%s;print l%%`l`';print l%`l`

regards,

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