Agreed. For readability, ignoring DRY, my hierarchy of preference is: 1. One reasonable line of code 2. Several lines of plain code 3. A function call, movin

Agreed. For readability, ignoring DRY, my hierarchy of preference is: 1. One reasonable line of code 2. Several lines of plain code 3. A function call, moving the implementation elsewhere 4. A gnarly one-liner (The tough part about this is drawing the line between 1 & 4.)