"Magic" code is code that gives little or no indication that it's being executed in the contexts that are affected. Think of this as the "locality" of code. Do

"Magic" code is code that gives little or no indication that it's being executed in the contexts that are affected. Think of this as the "locality" of code. Do the names and operations being referenced in the current context completely describe the functionality that is being executed? Then the code has high locality. Magic code is code with low locality.