Re: Some fun with quines

[Brian G <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/24/25 15:08, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
>     No idea if it is first, not sure it could be done with the IDE though.
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> Why not? Isn't the definition just a program that prints its own source?
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> Jussi

On the surface it would seem quite simple, but the IDE creates a 
complicated group of source files/support files

I guess in effect that is what the scripter does. Converts the script to 
a project and then executes it.

so take any IDE project directory and run the command

  gbs3 --convert-project ~/quine  <destination directory>

 Which would create a single gambas script source file "quine.gbs", Now 
verify that all the details are in the contained source string and then

cat quine.gbs | gbs3 - | gbs3 - | gbs3 - > quine2.gbs ; diff quine.gbs 
quine2.gbs

I am not sure how complicated it would be  to do this  directly from the 
ide/project directory to achieve the same result, any ideas?

maybe something like

     gbx3  ~/myproject  > ~/newproject ; gbx3 ~/newproject > 
~/newerproject ;  diff ~/myproject  ~/newerprogect

I guess could be done but would get pretty big and complicated as you 
should not just copy directly ones self, it must create its self from code.

-- Never too old to have a little fun with our craft!
~~~~ Brian

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