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These implementations have the feature that they are quines of themselves in the language that they accept (so long as you take a generous definition of what to ignore; the HQ9+ definition is ambiguous enough that it allows such an interpretation). So the implementation of a language with a quine operation is a quine in the language implemented. This feels like a rather appropriate restriction...
These implementations have the feature that they are quines of themselves in the language that they accept (so long as you take a generous definition of what to ignore; the HQ9+ definition is ambiguous enough that it allows such an interpretation). So the implementation of a language with a quine operation is a quine in the language implemented. This feels like a rather appropriate restriction...