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Constants printed by toplevel are not quines
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The name of the task is '''Quine'''. A Quine is not allowed to open its source file and to copy it to standard output. All implementations which do this should be removed. [[User:194.48.84.1|194.48.84.1]] 05:56, 20 November 2007 (MST)
The task states (perhaps not clearly enough) that the program itself should do the printing, not any toplevel read-eval-print loop, or equivalent. Otherwise, all constants in languages that have such a toplevel would be quines. But that is completely missing the point of the original problem, which (as explained for example in the book ''Gödel, Escher, Bach'') is about self-application, and quoting. [[User:DirkT|Dirk Thierbach]] 21 November 2007
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