There seems to be a spectrum of different types of reflection. You can trust observations of how parts of you map inputs to outputs, but you can’t trust quined descriptions embedded in your source code, because the programmer who wrote you didn’t necessarily care about writing a perfect quine.
There seems to be a spectrum of different types of reflection. You can trust observations of how parts of you map inputs to outputs, but you can’t trust quined descriptions embedded in your source code, because the programmer who wrote you didn’t necessarily care about writing a perfect quine.
Understatement of the year!