<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">From Wikipedia (via Marc Pacheco):</div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">In some languages, an empty source file is a fixed point of the language, producing no output. Such an empty program, submitted as "the world's smallest self reproducing program", once won the "worst abuse of the rules" prize in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Code_Contest" title="International Obfuscated C Code Contest" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">International Obfuscated C Code Contest</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>On 17 Jul 2013, at 10:16, Murray Steele <<a href="mailto:murray.steele@gmail.com">murray.steele@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Might it be one of those letter of the law, not spirit of the law things?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 July 2013 09:50, Chris Parsons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.p@rsons.org" target="_blank">chris.p@rsons.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:08:55am +0100, Mark Burns wrote:<br>
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Is an empty file a quine in ruby?<br>
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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.<br>
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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.)<br>
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Related: is the program the empty file itself, or the statements within it?<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Chris<br>
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