My point of view is that anything that makes system construction non-deterministic, conditional on the environment, sensitive to the order in which things are defined or otherwise surprising or hard to track is only going to make things harder in the end.
my painful memories loudly add a big +1 for that. we moved to the foo+bar explicit dependency solution after we spent way too much time debugging stupid things that e.g. depended on inode order in the filesystem... -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)