mame/radiation-hardened-quine

if it were to be a quine, shouldn't the one-char-deleted quine return the one-char-deleted program, not the original?

silky opened this issue · 6 comments

silky commented

at least, that's what i expected.

still, it's quite impressive.

mame commented

If you give me a pull request, I'll merge it in :-)

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silky commented

haha :)

lmb commented

Wouldn't that imply that the quine reduces to the empty string at some point? In that case I'll happily provide a pull ;)

silky commented

hahaha!

mame commented

Vacuously true :-)

nixpulvis commented

Depends a bit how you look at this. If you consider this to be a radiation hardened quine, then I'd argue that it shouldn't return the new program without the bit that was flipped. However if you call it a quine that can have a single character changed, then I might expect it to print the changed program.

Either way, this is rad (pun intended).

Sorry for necro, I couldn't resist.