The second example turns 18 lines of pretty simple code to 48 lines of function soup. At least to this reader's eyes. (Added): Granted, many of the 48 is whit

The second example turns 18 lines of pretty simple code to 48 lines of function soup. At least to this reader's eyes. (Added): Granted, many of the 48 is whitespace, but it still moves logically related code further away from eachother.