Print your own code.
François Pinard
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Sun Sep 19 10:44:29 EDT 1999
nascheme at ucalgary.ca (Neil Schemenauer) writes:
> >I heard that it's possible to write a python script that prints
> >it's own source... is that true? How?
> That is an old trick. I believe it can be done in almost any
> language.
There is an old theorem by Kleene about this (the fixed-point theorem). Gosh,
this is really far in my memory -- no idea of what the theorem really says :-)
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François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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