[racket] Challenge: <impressive function> in 140 chars or less

From: Neil Toronto (neil.toronto at gmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 25 18:28:15 EST 2012

What if we further require quines to apply at least one function that 
they contain? I want to include Eduardo's function in the class of 
"impressive" ones.

Neil ⊥

On 02/24/2012 06:35 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
> This is pretty boring too. :)
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> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Neil Toronto<neil.toronto at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I dunno. It might work better if we require quines to produce themselves in
>> quoted form. Then the empty program isn't one.
>>
>> Neil
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>> On 02/24/2012 06:28 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
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>>> Doesn't work as well in Racket as in Scheme, that one!
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>>> Robby
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>>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Eduardo Bellani<ebellani at gmail.com>
>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does this count?
>>>>
>>>> ((λ (x) (list x (list 'quote x))) '(λ (x) (list x (list 'quote x))))
>>>>
>>>> On 02/23/2012 04:52 PM, Gary Baumgartner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:04:50PM -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is this thing? It seems coolly symmetric in this view:
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>>>>> [...]
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomae%27s_function
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