if it were to be a quine, shouldn't the one-char-deleted quine return the one-char-deleted program, not the original?

[silky]

at least, that's what i expected.

still, it's quite impressive.

[mame]

If you give me a pull request, I'll merge it in :-)

[silky]

haha :)

[lmb]

Wouldn't that imply that the quine reduces to the empty string at some point? In that case I'll happily provide a pull ;)

[silky]

hahaha!

[mame]

Vacuously true :-)

[nixpulvis]

Depends a bit how you look at this. If you consider this to be a radiation hardened quine, then I'd argue that it shouldn't return the new program without the bit that was flipped. However if you call it a quine that can have a single character changed, then I might expect it to print the changed program.

Either way, this is rad (pun intended).

Sorry for necro, I couldn't resist.