From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T02:35:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Self-replicating Ruby

On Oct 21, 2007, at 10:25 PM, Frank J. Lhota wrote:

> Dear Ruby fans,
>
> A common Lisp exercise is to write a Lisp program that writes its own
> source code to standard output. Reading from a source file is not
> permitted.
>
> This leads one to wonder: what is the smallest and / or most elegant
> Ruby program that writes its own source code to standard output? As
> with Lisp, reading from a file is not permitted. Given the nature of
> the language, this problem should  should have a lot of interesting
> solutions.

My favorite Ruby quine is

<code>
DATA.rewind
STDOUT.write(DATA.read)
__END__
</code>

Regards, Morton