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This is an unbirthday present for @screwlisp,
who posted earlier about quines.To give it as a puzzle at first:
find a Python quine as a string Q such that eval(Q) == Q.
A spoiler to follow.
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The term "fixed point" comes to mind. And the Y combinator comes into
this picture as well; wie another day.(Estimating Python's degree of homoiconicity is left as an exercise.)
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