I like lines-spent as a measure, but I wish I could figure out a hybrid measure which didn't hurt lines which confirm/narrow the state space (such as the "unnec

I like lines-spent as a measure, but I wish I could figure out a hybrid measure which didn't hurt lines which confirm/narrow the state space (such as the "unnecessary asserts to show programmer intent"). Somehow being able to distinguish this would help avoid insanely complicated code (of which usually can be much, much simpler), but doesn't encourage anyone to literally ignore all error checking and do everything as some kind of chained-single-line-expression abomination [1]. [1] Something I often see in functional JS and regular python from time to time.