It is a fairly well-known fact that -- most of the time -- fewer lines of code translates to fewer bugs and decreased maintainability costs. Moving from 11 lin

It is a fairly well-known fact that -- most of the time -- fewer lines of code translates to fewer bugs and decreased maintainability costs. Moving from 11 lines to 1 line is, for me, vastly superior readability. And anyone who has been programming for a couple years at least would have no problem parsing the order of operations and precedence between && and || (logical 'and' is always higher precedence than logical 'or' in every language I've seen), but parenthesis are a trivial addition if desired.