Nice! In my first draft of the problem I had specifically disallowed infinitely long strings (afterall "print "print "print ... is not a valid quine) but I must have foolishly dropped it in one of the revisions.
I'll accept infinitely long solutions as soon as we have a cpan module that allows infinitely long regex. :) On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:05 +0000, Ton Hospel wrote: > Ah, the idea seems salvagable, but less elegant: > > this sequence is self matching: > ^ > ^\^ > ^\^\\\^ > ^\^\\\^\\\\\\\^ > .... > > so an infinite sequence of ^ with 2**n-1 \ after the n-th ^ -- Jasvir Nagra http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~jas
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