hmm yeah I dunno, I don't think my boss was 'virtue signalling' by asking me to replace instances of 'invalid'. I suspect by 'virtue signalling' you mean he wa

hmm yeah I dunno, I don't think my boss was 'virtue signalling' by asking me to replace instances of 'invalid'. I suspect by 'virtue signalling' you mean he was angling to impress me with how virtuous he was. (because the users never saw my code before the audit) Why would he try to impress me? or think it would? I never noticed the quixotic reaction against perceived 'virtue signalling' until sometime this century, and that code audit was back in the 90s. I'm not certain but I do think it was actually prompted by a previous experience with a confused user who had the word printed on a receipt and mistakenly thought the term referred to them!