DDD - the rule that Entities can't access Repositories directly
In Domain Driven Design, there seems to be lots of agreement that Entities should not access Repositories directly. Did this come from Eric Evans Domain Driven Design book, or did it come from elsewhere? Where are there some good explanations for the reasoning behind it? edit: To clarify: I'm not talking about the classic OO practice of separating data access off into a separate layer from the business logic - I'm talking about the specific arrangement whereby in DDD, Entities are not supposed to talk to the data access layer at all (i.e. they are not supposed to hold references to Repository