Comments on: Useless Hackery: A Scala Quine http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine (permanently in beta) Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:21:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Landei http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine/comment-page-1#comment-3962 Landei Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:20:58 +0000 http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine#comment-3962 Just for the record, combining our approaches gives a 112 char Scala quine, and I see no easy way to get it shorter: object Q extends Application{val s="object Q extends Application{val s=%c%s%1$c;printf(s,34,s)}";printf(s,34,s)} Just for the record, combining our approaches gives a 112 char Scala quine, and I see no easy way to get it shorter:

object Q extends Application{val s=”object Q extends Application{val s=%c%s%1$c;printf(s,34,s)}”;printf(s,34,s)}

]]> By: Daniel Spiewak http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine/comment-page-1#comment-3545 Daniel Spiewak Thu, 01 May 2008 16:56:38 +0000 http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine#comment-3545 Wow, you're right! That's pretty clever actually. Wow, you’re right! That’s pretty clever actually.

]]> By: Ricky Clarkson http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine/comment-page-1#comment-3544 Ricky Clarkson Thu, 01 May 2008 15:04:24 +0000 http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine#comment-3544 Actually you can compile and run it, it uses an initialiser instead of main. The JVM loads the class then tries to call main. In this case it doesn't get as far as calling main, because the initialiser exits. Actually you can compile and run it, it uses an initialiser instead of main. The JVM loads the class then tries to call main. In this case it doesn’t get as far as calling main, because the initialiser exits.

]]> By: Cliff Vick http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine/comment-page-1#comment-3542 Cliff Vick Thu, 01 May 2008 13:57:36 +0000 http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine#comment-3542 Quines are more than just entertaining, the idea is the foundation of Godel's incompleteness theorem. Quines are more than just entertaining, the idea is the foundation of Godel’s incompleteness theorem.

]]> By: Jos Hirth http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine/comment-page-1#comment-3536 Jos Hirth Thu, 01 May 2008 06:34:26 +0000 http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine#comment-3536 Quines are somewhat entertaining. I actually managed to wreak some havoc with one: http://kaioa.com/node/48 But for the most part it's indeed just a pointless brain teaser. :) Quines are somewhat entertaining. I actually managed to wreak some havoc with one:

http://kaioa.com/node/48

But for the most part it’s indeed just a pointless brain teaser. :)

]]> By: Daniel Spiewak http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine/comment-page-1#comment-3535 Daniel Spiewak Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:12:56 +0000 http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine#comment-3535 Doesn't count, because you can't actually compile and run it (no main method). Doesn’t count, because you can’t actually compile and run it (no main method).

]]> By: Landei http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine/comment-page-1#comment-3534 Landei Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:03:32 +0000 http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/useless-hackery-a-scala-quine#comment-3534 Nope, you can do better in Java, look at this beauty with 135 characters: enum S{T;System y;String s="enum S{T;System y;String s=%c%s%1$c;{y.out.printf(s,34,s);y.exit(0);}}";{y.out.printf(s,34,s);y.exit(0);}} Nope, you can do better in Java, look at this beauty with 135 characters:

enum S{T;System y;String s=”enum S{T;System y;String s=%c%s%1$c;{y.out.printf(s,34,s);y.exit(0);}}”;{y.out.printf(s,34,s);y.exit(0);}}

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