Talk:Quine: Difference between revisions
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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
:I clarified the task. Different scenarios have different requirements for output. The Lisp example satisfied the spirit of the task (produce a usable reproduction of one's own code), so the task itself needed to be adjusted. I won't take that approach in all cases; It's a matter of the spirit of the task. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 13:06, 21 November 2007 (MST)
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