As far as I'm concerned 'explicit' just means that the behaviour under discussion is caused by some piece of source that talks about that behaviour and not something else.
Whether the bit of source is a single character or a paragraph of prose is about verbosity rather than explicitness as long as the behaviour under discussion is caused by a piece of source with precisely that purpose.
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As far as I'm concerned 'explicit' just means that the behaviour under discussion is caused by some piece of source that talks about that behaviour and not something else.
Whether the bit of source is a single character or a paragraph of prose is about verbosity rather than explicitness as long as the behaviour under discussion is caused by a piece of source with precisely that purpose.