At 00:59 +0100 11/17/08, Martin Gamsjaeger wrote:
> ... I don't really like all kinds of automagic!

Agreed.  And possibly worth discussing.  Why, for example, am
I happy that Merb does away with the automagic rendering of
view files, but comfortable with the way that display chooses
_how_ to render things, based on the requested MIME type?

I think that the critical difference, to me, is Einstein's

  "spooky action at a distance"

That is, I want there to be some indication, in the code I'm
looking at, that something is going to happen.  I don't need
the details, I can find those by following the method calls,
but I want there to be some code saying "here be dragons".

-r
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