Concision is as short as possible, but still conveys the idea. If you don't get the idea from a piece of code then the code is not concise. It's just short. Con

Concision is as short as possible, but still conveys the idea. If you don't get the idea from a piece of code then the code is not concise. It's just short. Concision is a virtue. Or do you mean there's some value in redundancy? I'd be interested in an example. Even java added the <> to avoid the repeated template parameter, Foo<Things> x = new Foo<Things>(); becomes Foo<Things> x = new Foo<>();