[throwaway914]

I'm equating this to condition-less coding, where you're trying to eliminate branching logic with bitwise operators or other math.

[chaorace]

Yeah, except you can only change one line at a time and you lose all of your changes if it doesn't compile at any point.

[koeng]

Sex changes many lines at a time. But you do die if it doesn’t compile.

[mrguyorama]

My friend who has a defective genome including a specific enzyme that doesn't "compile" and he is plenty alive