1. No. To quote the very same Guice documents you are pointing at: "What is dependency injection? Dependency injection is a design pattern wherein classes decla

1. No. To quote the very same Guice documents you are pointing at: "What is dependency injection? Dependency injection is a design pattern wherein classes declare their dependencies as arguments instead of creating those dependencies directly." Literally what I said. 2. Oh boy, this is the first time I have seen Guice and it is exactly what I am talking about with languages not understanding the concept and having to be worked around with utter hacks. If you just had symbols you could bind constructors/types to and then pass those around into your implementations you could get rid of most of the common cases they mention in their docs.