##### Richard wrote: ##### Anyone got examples of Perl programs that can output themselves?
##### self-reproducing program seek DATA, 0, 0; print <DATA>; __DATA__ http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ -Richard ### This means that this script looks for the landmark __DATA__, ### but as "seek" rewinds the data pointer, the script does not ### start reading _after_ that landmark, but at the foremost ### position of that landmark's land's letter sequence. ### In this regard the script is as free as a mole or a gull to explore ### its realm. Nice. =Detlef
