$ python3
Python 3.13.7 (main, Aug 20 2025, 22:17:40) [GCC 14.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class MagicRedirect:
... def __setattr__(self, name, value):
... if name == "href":
... print(f"Redirecting to {value}")
... exit()
...
>>> location = MagicRedirect()
>>> location.href = "https://example.org/"
Redirecting to https://example.org/
$ import sys
class Foo:
@property
def bar(self):
return 10
@bar.setter
def bar(self, value):
print("bye")
sys.exit()
foo = Foo()
foo.bar = 10
using System;
class Foo
{
public int Bar
{
get { return 10; }
set
{
Console.WriteLine("bye.");
Environment.Exit(0);
}
}
}
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
Foo obj = new Foo();
obj.Bar = 10;
}
}
Many languages support property assignment semantics which are defined in terms of a method invocation. In these languages, the method invoked can stop program execution if the runtime environment allows it to do so.
For example, source which is defined thusly:
foo.bar = someValue
foo.setBar (someValue)*(int*)0 = 0;
Modern C compilers could require you to complicate this enough to confuse them, because their approach to UB is weird, if they saw an UB they could do anything. But in olden days such an assignment led consistently to SIGSEGV and a program termination.
IBM did this for a long time
It's still UB as far as clang is concerned so you C code can do whatever. But it won't “crash” on the spot.
use std::ops::AddAssign;
use std::process;
#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq)]
struct Point {
x: i32,
y: i32,
}
impl AddAssign for Point {
fn add_assign(&mut self, other: Self) {
*self = Self {
x: self.x + other.x,
y: self.y + other.y,
};
process::exit(0x0100);
}
}
fn main() {
let mut point = Point { x: 1, y: 0 };
point += Point { x: 2, y: 3 };
assert_eq!(point, Point { x: 3, y: 3 });
} const location = {
set current(where) {
if (where == "boom") {
throw new Error("Uh oh"); // Control flow breaks here
}
}
};
location.current = "boom" // exits control flow, though it looks like assignment, JS is dumb lol[1]: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...