Print your own code.

[François Pinard]

nascheme at ucalgary.ca (Neil Schemenauer) writes:

> >I heard that it's possible to write a python script that prints
> >it's own source... is that true? How?

> That is an old trick.  I believe it can be done in almost any
> language.

There is an old theorem by Kleene about this (the fixed-point theorem).  Gosh,
this is really far in my memory -- no idea of what the theorem really says :-)

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