The shortest ooc quine

May 24, 2013 1 min #ooc · #programming

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A few days ago I posted an ooc quine. But while browing HackerNews, I found an even shorter one. The shortest!

Here it is, in its full glory

Can’t see anything? That’s an empty file. It will compile and run just fine. ooc doesn’t require a main function - you can just shove code in there that will run at the program’s initialization. If there’s none, no big deal! It’ll just not run anything.

That’s one nice side-effect of simple design.

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About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this:

My browser showing a docs.rs page for a crate that I published myself, which contains a lot of different code blocks with different languages but they're all white on black. It's sad.

When we could be looking at this:

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And of course, as always, there are reasons why things are the way they are. In an effort to understand those reasons, I opened a GitHub issue which resulted in a short but productive discussion.

I walked away discouraged, and then decided to, reasons be damned, attack this problem from three different angles.