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Re:The If-by-whiskey fallacy by Shish2k on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @10:35AM (#5067213)
If by "If by \"if by 'if by whiskey'\"" you mean you're offering me some whiskey to help with trying to comprehend this level of nesting, then yes please :-)
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Re:The If-by-whiskey fallacy by InclinedPlane on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @04:26PM (#5069133)
What is the fixed point of this function? Is there one? Quick, someone apply the y-combinator!
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Re:The If-by-whiskey fallacy by Martijn on Thursday January 17, 2013 @08:19AM (#5072420)
For some reason this reminds me of Quine Central[1]. :-)

[1] http://blog.sigfpe.com/2011/01/quine-central.html

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Re:The If-by-whiskey fallacy by FredFredrickson on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @03:13PM (#5068785)
This is starting to look like some horrible regex nightmare!
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Re:The If-by-whiskey fallacy by mindcrime on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @03:59PM (#5068992)
if by "regex nightmare" you mean "regex" then I am opposed to it!
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