Re:A Quine in Fortran 90
by orph4nus on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:17PM
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A multiquine does require you to give input in order to determine what language to output. Although it will output the current file if no input is giving. More info @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)#Multiquines
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Re:A Quine in Fortran 90
by gliese1337 on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:36PM
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The definition of a multiquine specifically disallows passing in source code as input, though. The input to a multiquine is strictly for selecting which sub-quine to run, or which output set to calculate, and is not used in any way to influence the calculation of the selected output.