I'm going to add "poka-yoke" to the list of things that I make students commit to memory in my law school contract-drafting course; it'll be a synonym for "R.O.

I'm going to add "poka-yoke" to the list of things that I make students commit to memory in my law school contract-drafting course; it'll be a synonym for "R.O.O.F" — Root Out Opportunities for [Foul]-ups. (This is another example of how legal-contract drafters can learn from the software world, including concepts such as, for example, orthogonality; modularity; R.O.O.F.; D.R.Y. [Don't Repeat Yourself]; graceful failure; and the benefit of sometimes explaining why things are done the way they are, to help future readers understand.)