Quines

[dylanbeattie]

So here's an idea:

The Rockstar interpreter will accept ANY source code file containing the word "quine", and will print the entire source code.

That's it. So if you want to use it in something like the ouroboros quine... easy.

[caseyc37]

Might I suggest that this be as a full word only? I'd rather not have the full code printed just because I included the word "equine" as a variable name

[dylanbeattie]

That's a good call - agreed that it shouldn't be triggered by "equine".

Now I think about it... what if the activation keyword was quïne with a mëtäl ümläüt over the i? That'll produce the same behaviour, but much less risk of accidentally quining your program because you said your lead singer's harlequinery wouldn't work without his sequined underwear.

If anybody's curious, the colliding words are:

1. basquine
2. broquineer
3. chloroquine
4. equine
5. equinecessary
6. equinely
7. equines
8. fourquine
9. harlequinery
10. harlequinesque
11. palanquined
12. palanquiner
13. pamaquine
14. pentaquine
15. plasmoquine
16. preterequine
17. primaquine
18. quinela
19. quinelas
20. quinella
21. quinellas
22. quinet
23. quinetum
24. sequined
25. totaquine
26. unequine
27. vasquine

[caseyc37]

The umlaut solves that issue, but frankly it's hard to type. Why not simply require that the word "quine" have whitespace (or file start/end) before and after? That avoids all overlap words.

[JanGruyaert]

I like this idea very much. Especially the Quïne version with the umlaut. It fits the Rockstar language perfectly. It's harder to type on certain keyboard layouts but aren't quines hard to type ;-)