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by zeroxfe 976 days ago
Because every single handler in a long chain of requests will have to explicitly support and propagate this data. The whole idea of a request context is to let you plumb low-cost metadata transparently through a call tree, and decouple your code from that metadata.
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Very well articulated and agree.

It’s one of those things you eventually wish you had.