From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2002-08-21T10:52:49+09:00
Subject: Re: quines (again)


From: "Joel VanderWerf" <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU>
>
> Bill Kelly wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Sorry if this is annoying, 'cause I know we've done quines before,
> > but I just came up with this one, and was all "stoked and stuff"
> > (to use 80's southern california vernacular ;)
> > 
> > p eval _="print 'p eval _=';_"
> 
> Dude, that's tubular. (Sorry, I'm from CA.)
> 
> Is that the smallest ruby quine that anyone's seen?

Just realized we could zap the space after the print.... to nitpick
my own quine, as it were ;)

(I was also thinking, wouldn't it be funny if Matz surreptitiously,
in some future language revision slipped the following into the core:
  class Object
    def quine; puts "quine"; end
  end
;-)


Regards,

Bill