torture bill summed up in C

[cellio]

From patrissimo, who got it from others:

It occurs to me now that the whole 94-page bill really amounts to a common, one-character programming error.

if (person = terrorist) {
   punish_severely();
   } else {
     exit(-1);
   }

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I want a type-safe administration.

[sethg]

And these are the same guys who don't want us to implement a subclass (ahem) of Marriage that takes two Male or two Female objects in its constructor....