> Personally I dislike nested function calls in general and would use intermediate variables with descriptive names. Oh, I agree completely that step-by-step i

> Personally I dislike nested function calls in general and would use intermediate variables with descriptive names. Oh, I agree completely that step-by-step is often more readable than deep nesting. OTOH, your example is a good illustration of the problems with column indentation. If it hadn't been HN's goofy code formatting that messed you up, it would have been some code refactoring that changed the length of one of those variable or function names.