On Monday, 16 January 2017 at 13:11:38 UTC, pineapple wrote:
On Monday, 16 January 2017 at 09:33:23 UTC, Nestor wrote:
PS. Isn't this approach considered "cheating" in quines? ;)
I'm afraid so - while the empty program has been technically
accepted as being a quine (e.g.
http://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint) programs which use file io
to read their own source have not.
But the program doesn't read from IO it's own program. It is a
stand alone executable which does no file IO. The compiler on the
other hand does IO to inject the file into the program.
