[pcthrowaway]

> And I can't think of anything in the ruby language itself that is implicit over explicit

This is surprising to me. I love ruby, but it embraces implicitness more than any other language I've used. method_missing, monkey patching internals, and other types of metaprogramming make things very implicit at the interface level

[cutler]

If you want to really experience the true horror of implicit try Scala.

[lmm]

Scala's implicits are a lot less unpleasant because the type system means that you (and, perhaps more importantly, your IDE) know exactly where they're happening.