> When asked, I would give people my opinion that maintainable code is more important than clever code. If I encountered clever code that was particularly crypt

> When asked, I would give people my opinion that maintainable code is more important than clever code. If I encountered clever code that was particularly cryptic, and I had to do some maintenance on it, I would probably rewrite it. It would be great to see some examples of this rewriting. I feel that we see a lot of examples of converting repetitive code to terse code, but fewer examples of "de-clevering" code.