is ceremony that requires no thought and adds no value. Aw, hell no! That's a very easily detectable (anti)pattern! You can scan even a very large code base fo

is ceremony that requires no thought and adds no value. Aw, hell no! That's a very easily detectable (anti)pattern! You can scan even a very large code base for that! As noted in other comments, you should be adding some contextual information at this point. Contrast this with having too-much magic, where you might have absolutely no trace in code left. You can't usefully search a large code base for all such relevant blanks.