On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 12:59 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Ah, when you said 'contract', I thought you meant something enforceable, > which the promise can't do (but private contracts could). That is, if > Murphy and I made a private agreement resulting in this PoA, but I abuse > the PoA outside of the bounds of the agreement, Murphy doesn't have any > legal recourse as far as I can tell.
Right, there were basically three elements of a subroutine contract: the binding promise, the secrecy, and the ability to have complete control over the timing (i.e. no interaction required from the other player). Promises can only do two out of three (and not the first two, either). -- ais523
