[LRUG] [META] Can we talk about Ruby? EOM

[Murray Steele]

Might it be one of those letter of the law, not spirit of the law things?


On 17 July 2013 09:50, Chris Parsons <chris.p at rsons.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:08:55am +0100, Mark Burns wrote:
>
>> Is an empty file a quine in ruby?
>>
>
> Given that a quine is a program that prints it's own source code, then I
> would say only if an empty file is classed as a program.
>
> I guess that that would depend on whether the language defines whether an
> empty file is valid (it is Ruby, therefore an empty file is a quine.)
>
> Related: is the program the empty file itself, or the statements within it?
>
>
> Chris
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