in reply to World's most boring Perl quine
in thread World's worst Perl quine

I know writing quines isn't a serious subject (at least not to me), but is it fair practice to count on the name of the file to make the quine work? It seems like using metadata like that should be considered a cheat.

Scott

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(tye)Re: World's most boring Perl quine
by tye (Sage) on Oct 22, 2001 at 08:15 UTC

    No, not at all. Save the following script: print $0 to a file named 'print $0'.

    BTW, that's part of why "worst" is in the title.
            - tye (Sarcasm? What sarcasm?)
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