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I don't think he meant compressing 5 lines of "normal code" into a one-liner. He meant, actually removing it. Maybe the logic it provides is not needed anymore,

by Dreami 9y ago

I don't think he meant compressing 5 lines of "normal code" into a one-liner. He meant, actually removing it. Maybe the logic it provides is not needed anymore, or you could do it somewhere else in a far more readable way (I'm thinking about abstraction levels)

root_axis 9y ago
Sure, and I think we can all agree that this type of refactoring is useful, but I have worked with many developers that really take this anti-LoC idea to heart and end up producing difficult to read code because they are so focused on finding the most terse way to express logic.
- majewsky 9y ago
  A favorite quip of mine is that I dislike Ruby because the entire community optimizes for one-liners.
  - collyw 9y ago
    Back in my days of writing Perl one liners were also kind of encouraged, because usually it would likely be more performant. At least thats what some instructors told us.