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Maybe it's like not labelling the GND net next to every gnd symbol in a schematic, or even omitting both vcc and gnd pins from ic symbols entirely, except where they are not all the same.

Implicit hidden magic is bad, but then again a schematic full of individual traces instead of busses, and 400 vcc and gnd labels can actually clutter and hide the essense of the design more than convey it.

Maybe it's like that. You can spell it all out if you want to, but if it's always the same and everyone knows it, then maybe it's just obfuscating clutter to show it if there isn't some reason to.

(btw I have no opinion on the language itself. is OO a good fit for hardware? maybe but I personally don't like it for software so I go in skeptical)



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