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by trippy_biscuits 3937 days ago
How does it address quines?

http://research.swtch.com/zip

2 comments

It's just a compressor, it doesn't provide any decompression support.
I love the fact that there is a ZIP quine, too, and I'll admit I immediately thought of that, but it's not clear to me what responsibility the library has to, or what the expectation on the user's part there is that it will, 'address' quines in any particular way.