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Perhaps they should adopt programming language like syntax for laws. eg You will be jailed for [kill, hurt, steal].
by ape4 10y ago
Perhaps they should adopt programming language like syntax for laws. eg You will be jailed for [kill, hurt, steal].
- donarb 10y agoDefine 'kill'. What about self-defense, soldier in time of war, accidental, negligence? You're going to need an overly large switch statement to decide, and that's just one crime.
- mcbits 10y agoIf laws were codified in a machine-friendly format, automatic code analysis could alert lawmakers and the public to ambiguity, conflicts, redundancy, unused code, opportunities for optimization and verbosity.