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Yes though there are other large classes of error, I've had editor makers insist that they want their signed document format to include code and be signable. "I
by fatfingerd 3y ago
Yes though there are other large classes of error, I've had editor makers insist that they want their signed document format to include code and be signable. "Is that date fixed or calculated from the current time?"
- bee_rider 3y agoDid they give any justification? I guess hypothetically in an extremely niche situation— signed documents for coders who can actually read the code and decide they want to sign whatever it output—that could make sense… but I can’t imagine any market for such a tool.
- fatfingerd 3y agoThey didn't want to upset people who used macros for footer page numbers and other boilerplate. Naturally the general code capabilities preceded the interest in adding signatures.
- bee_rider 3y agoInteresting! The page numbers seem important, in the sense that the sudden removal of a bunch of pages from a contract ought to be easy to detect. But maybe your co-workers were so fundamentally honest that they couldn’t think of the duplicitous applications there.