Am 18.07.2017 um 14:34 schrieb Aloïs Cochard:

Hi Albert,

I definitely see uses for `cabal manpage`; it's great, but how useful would be `cabal quine` in practice?

I fail to see what purpose it could serve.

That's exactly why he wrote that his request is "in jest": It's useless, just the logical generalization of `cabal manpage`.

Cheers

On 15 July 2017 at 19:37, Albert Y. C. Lai mailto:trebla@vex.net> wrote:

Today a few of us on IRC (freenode #haskell) discovered: The following cabal-install command

cabal manpage

outputs cabal-install's man page (and is mainly how cabal-install can come with a man page without carrying an extra source file).

This inspires the following feature request in jest:

Could "cabal quine" output its source code please? :)

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Thanks all for teaching me English expressions :-) Everything is abstract around here indeed, had no idea what "in jest" means! On 18 July 2017 at 15:26, Daniel Trstenjak wrote:

...

That's exactly why he wrote that his request is "in jest": It's useless, just the logical generalization of `cabal manpage`.

In Haskell everything is abstract, even the humor. ;) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.

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