Re: Writing own source disk

On 02/06/2024 23:17, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
 

Writing a prgram which writes its own source to standard output is a
standard programming problem. It's called a quine.

 A quine must also not process any input.

No input at compile-time or runtime?
A compiler necessarily has to have the source code of the program as input, so what are the limitations? A C program can use #include; does that extend to directives like #embed, or is that considered cheating?