Date : Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:26:53 -0000
From : michael.firth@... (michael.firth@...)
Subject: Quine
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> [mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+michael.firth=bt.com@...
> .uk] On Behalf Of Mark Haysman
> Sent: 25 November 2009 01:30
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Quine
>
> > Think of it using "the traditional metaphor": It's a big stack of
> > dishes, all piled up. You can put dishes on top, you can
> take off the
> > top dish. You can't pull out dishes from elsewhere in the stack, or
> > crockery will get broken and
> wife/girlfriend/mom/nosy-biddy-next-door
> > will shout.
>
> That's not strictly true, you can use some trickery to pull
> something off
> the stack that's not in order:
>
> TSX
> INX
> LDA&101,X
>
Surely
TSX
LDA &102,X
Does the same thing, but with less instructions?
Regards
Michael