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A few JavaScript quines
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// Today, I noticed that someone favorited this tweet of mine from 2012: | |
// https://twitter.com/cowboy/status/232587756486938624 | |
// !function $(){console.log('!'+$+'()')}() #quine | |
// So I fooled around for a little bit: | |
// Shortest JavaScript quine? | |
(function _(){return'('+_+')()'})() | |
// Have fun with this one! | |
(function $($_$,_,_$,_$_,$_){return[_=_[$_$](_$[$_++])][_[$_++]][_[$_++]]([][_[$_--]][_[$_++]](_$_,function($$){return _$[$$]||[$_,_$_,_,$_$,$][$_--]},$_++),_[++$_])})('split',',join,call,map',',()\'\\','1821383038303012434430383082',0) |
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// Test a quine like so: | |
a= your_quine_code | |
a===eval(a) // must be true | |
// Eg. | |
a= (function _(){return'('+_+')()'})() | |
a===eval(a) // true |
<some>GPT's version, which it managed to glue together after around 71 attempts:
const s = [
"const s = [",
" /* lines will go here */",
"];",
"s.forEach((line, i) => console.log(i === 1 ? s.map(l => ' ' + JSON.stringify(l) + ',').join('\\n') : line));"
];
s.forEach((line, i) => console.log(i === 1 ? s.map(l => ' ' + JSON.stringify(l) + ',').join('\n') : line));
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my beautiful quine! technically doesnt read from itself, right? right?