Hello,

> >> And, could any native speaker confirm "self-evaluating" is even the 
> >> correct term to use?
> >
> > Yes. "Self-evaluating" is correct. You need the hyphen because it's a 
> > compound adjective.
> 
> Thanks, I actually meant the semantics :)

  The smiley means that this is a joke? I think you raised a valid
point.  If the expression doesn't give you the original (in term of
#==) it doesn't (at least to me) qualify to be a self-evaluating
expression.

> When I googled for it there were all sorts of discussion about 
> self-evaluation forms one had to submit to someone as a test, or so it 
> seemed ...

  ^^;

  My good old big company days, there was a peer-evaluation form and
one of my colleage goes something like: "he doesn't write comments in
his code."

-- Yoshiki