Re: Language Feature Request: String Evaluation

[Jon . Fairbairn]

On  8 Jun, Paul Hudak wrote:
>  show x should be a string that when printed looks like the value that
>  you would have to type to generate it directly.  This example is most
>  instructive:

[...]

and this is just cute:

main = putStr (quine q)
quine s = s ++ show s
q = "main = putStr (quine q)\nquine s = s ++ show s\nq = "

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