Of course, you can't evaluate prose in a REPL and see for yourself what it does. I agree that overly clever code is always to be avoided. But is this really ov

Of course, you can't evaluate prose in a REPL and see for yourself what it does. I agree that overly clever code is always to be avoided. But is this really overly clever? I wouldn't expect an engineer early in their career necessarily to understand on sight what it does. But I might worry a little for one who couldn't figure it out through experiment.