Do the poka-yoke: building error proof software
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US plug has a drawback that there could be a live connection with exposed prongs, similar to two pronged EU plugs: both apply with flat sockets (eg. you may touch the exposed pins).
A poka yoke is an implement that prevents or calls attention to an error state. It's shaping objects so that they can only be inserted a certain way, it's a flexible barrier that bumps against tall vehicles before they hit the tunnel entrance.
An enum is not that, I think.
No surprise it hasn't caught up outside Japan like "kanban", "lean", "stop-the-line" etc have.
Saying "Make mistakes impossible" invites people to say "Lol you can't, and why do you want to help idiot users anyway". Part of the software community right now seems to think "git gud" is the answer to mistakes and you don't need anything else.
If people say "you can't make mistakes impossible" but not "you can't poka yoke that", it's not about the terms.
Obviously, you can't make mistakes impossible, but the intent should be clear only if the reader wants it to be clear, and it's not much difference to "poka yoke it".
Words are coined for fictional, hypothetical, and/or idealized things that people don’t actually do all the time.
Words and phrases like “reincarnation”, “sorcery”, and “free markets” exist, that doesn’t mean that they correspond to phenomena that actually occur in the real world.