>>>>> "DM" == Dave Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DM> Most of my problems revolved around the fact that in this case,
DM> foo itself needs to include the z character, so the rest of the
DM> code is really about escaping the z's (and escaping the escapes),
DM> by doing s/v/z/ three times (but as s/V/chr 122/ie since the code
DM> can't include the z or v), then doing the actual s/x/$_/ (as
DM> s/x/ucfirst/e), then doing a further s/// to undo some damage done
DM> by the earlier s///'s
amusing.
>> and this would be cool to send to the quine site. i wonder if quines in
>> other langs could be done punctuation free?
DM> Which site is that?
first hit on google for quines
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm
and the perl page is here. it has lots of different ones. so i am not
sure how you called the one you worked from the basic quine.
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/self_perl.txt
the site seem to be untouched for a few years now.
uri
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