Timeline for What counts as a proper quine?
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| Aug 11, 2019 at 21:22 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | @MartinEnder: To belatedly answer an old comment, while I don't know much about Fission, it seems to me that at least slight variations of that quine like '!+!;R" could be made to carry a payload. For example, '!+!'H!e!l!!o!',!' !'W!o!r!l!d!'!!;R" prints its own code followed by Hello, World!. Sure, it's a bit awkward because I couldn't use " in the payload, but I believe the subset of Fission that this quine can carry is still quite expressive. Still, that's certainly an interesting borderline case. | |
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| May 29, 2015 at 10:08 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | Maybe this requirement is a bit too strong. I would consider this quine proper but it's not payload capable, since the string referring to the code is printed directly (as Fission does not have strings as data types). In fact, I'm not even sure that payload capable quines are possible in all languages (while yes, it should be possible to write any generalised quine in any Turing complete language, I don't think it's guaranteed that you can find a single form that can handle all possible payloads). | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 21:09 | history | edited | Ilmari Karonen | CC BY-SA 3.0 | "execute" -> "carry and execute" |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 21:00 | history | answered | Ilmari Karonen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |