Conciseness is optional. Sometimes a new Scala programmer will learn functional combinators and try to cram a lot of logic into one line. Breaking things up int

Conciseness is optional. Sometimes a new Scala programmer will learn functional combinators and try to cram a lot of logic into one line. Breaking things up into semantically related steps and assigning each step to a val with a descriptive name will make the code more readable to others (and the author's future self)