> By my count it's over 30 characters less "clean". If character count were really the ultimate measure of cleanliness, then we'd all be programming pointlessl

> By my count it's over 30 characters less "clean". If character count were really the ultimate measure of cleanliness, then we'd all be programming pointlessly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming) and using single-character names for any variables that slipped through. (That's not to say that shorter is never better, but rather that, when it is better, its brevity is not the only reason.)