At the very least I'll agree that terseness is not always a virtue, and the time saved in keystrokes or formatting now may be easily lost later when someone tri

At the very least I'll agree that terseness is not always a virtue, and the time saved in keystrokes or formatting now may be easily lost later when someone tries to figure things out. That said, not all statements of this form are unreadable or incomprehensible, and in some cases there may actually be performance implications as well. As always it is a matter of judgement.