From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-06-01T22:36:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Quine (#207)

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> James Gray wrote:
>> On May 31, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Jorrel wrote:
>>
>>> Is using File considered cheating?
>>>
>>>    puts File.readlines __FILE__
>>
>> It usually is, yes.
>
> I'd suggest you pipe the source code into the ruby interpreter:
>
>    cat quine.rb | ruby
>
>    cat quine.rb | ruby | diff -u quine.rb -
>
> That eliminates tricks with __FILE__ and $0.
>
Good thinking, but the "optimal" solution still passes ;)

 > xxx | ruby | diff -u xxx -

N.B. this ">" ain't a quote ;)
Robert
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