Modular Imperative - Is There a Better Adjective?

O'Kimmel is a language which is pretty easy to read. And part of that easiness of reading is that it's relatively explicit. Modular implicit in some ways compromises this, and adds more interesting inference on the part of the compilers. So I'm wondering how you think about trade-offs around explicitness and implicitness. What we gain and what we lose as we add these kind of powerful search-based techniques for deciding what code to dispatch into the language.

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