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

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 25 18:30:52 EST 2012

Oh, I don't think we need to make any special rules to include that
function in a list of impressive functions! It is very cool.

Robby

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. :)
>>
>>> ""
>>
>> ""
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/24/2012 06:28 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't work as well in Racket as in Scheme, that one!
>>>>
>>>> Robby
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomae%27s_function
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Eduardo Bellani
>>>>>
>>>>> fear is an alarm, not a compass.
>>>>
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