[mckn1ght]

I’m not sure brevity and explicitness are totally orthogonal, explicit sort of implies spelling things out in a longer way. That doesn’t mean that something that is long is thorough, however.

I like the tradeoff the Swiftlang project talks much about: brevity vs clarity (because explicit doesn’t necessarily mean clear, either, as your example shows). I think those are more orthogonal concerns, both important to think about, for different reasons that may often compete.