Well, yeah, with the "implicit registration" model you can either split it up or do it in a central place, whereas if they would require you to do it in a centr

Well, yeah, with the "implicit registration" model you can either split it up or do it in a central place, whereas if they would require you to do it in a central place, you wouldn't have that choice. It probably boils down to "library" vs. "framework" - Go's standard library doesn't want (as much as possible) to be a framework that forces you to do things its way, and as far as I'm concerned that's ok...