Quine using strings?

[Nestor via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 15 January 2017 at 19:43:22 UTC, Nestor wrote:
> I was reading some of the examples of writing a quine with D, 
> but apparently the language has evolved and they no longer 
> compiled unchanged.
>
> So I tried to program one by myself using strings and 
> std.stdio, but the result seems long and redundant:
>
> import std.stdio;void main(){string s=`import std.stdio;void 
> main(){string 
> s=writefln("%s\x60%s\x60;s",s[0..38],s,s[38..$]);}`;writefln("%s\x60%s\x60;%s",s[0..38],s,s[38..$]);}
>
> Any ideas for a shorter version (preferably without using 
> pointers)?

Well I just noticed a few problems in the code, I guess quines 
are a little complex to write.