Okay, I decided to take a look at the sources of Jamba after all.

When I was first scaling that cliff (the steep initial learning curve of WOW LUA), I reviewed the sources of a lot of addons looking for "best practices" examples of various aspects of WOW LUA and specifically of using Ace3. What delicious irony that after I scale that cliff the hard way, I find the very example of "best practices" in an addon that does much the same as I wrote.

If I were a "hat person", my hat would be off to you Jafula. Clean code, well modularized, well commented. I'd like to think that's how I'd have done it if I were to do things over.