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Give @middleware a more semantic name.

Had to put the class method definitions in an eigenclass wrapper
to use the 'alias' keyword sanely. It wouldn't be necessary if
old behavior of the middleware was unsupported, but that would be
too invasive for just a small clarity change.
Simplify default middleware construction.

- Removed concat, the DRYness isn't worth the loss of clarity.
- Removed ||=, no need to memoize such a small operation.
- Removed the array-default hash usage; if this behavior is supported,
  we should add a test for it.
remove incorrect comment in PR 706