CodeSOD: Failing to Fail

Russell F (previously) sends us a small one today. It's not just a representative line, it's a representative comment. More than that, it's a true confession. Russell wrote some code, you see, and the logic was confusing. So, a co-worker added a comment to explain what the code was doing:

'This is *supposed* to fail. If it fails to fail, it throws a failure message

Russell writes:

I have to confess that this one is my fault. The comment was added by one of my coworkers to clarify what I was doing, and made me realize how stupid I'd been.

"Failing to plan is planning to fail" becomes "failing to fail is failure message".

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