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More concise? Yes. More readable? Eh... I can grok either at about the same speed.

• Cushman 12y ago
  That's fair. Personally, I spend a lot of time reading and writing JavaScript, and I still can't not find all the braces distracting. I mean, if you're talking about a deep understanding of what the code does, I agree with you. But when you're writing a lot of code that basically looks like that, it's useful to be able to take it in at a glance.