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This is close to what I would have written. It is almost never about actually the line count. Not even SLOC. For example different languages lend themselves to breaking lines to a different degree. In Scheme I almost always write (define name \nl (lambda (arguments) \nl ...)) Did I now waste a line? Of course not. It is still the same number of concepts and basically tokens involved as would be in Python, when I write "def name(arguments):" but Python doesn't lend itself that well to line breaking, because of its (annoying) whitespace sensitivity. Neither does this make code any more or less readable nor does it increase the chance for bugs. Same goes for many other constructs in both languages. Take a "(cond ...)" for example. I will break some lines there, because the language makes it easy, by having everything delimited with parents, while in Python I will have to type additional visual clutter to do the same.