Re: Or...
You're transforming something fairly simple and obvious into something that is less so and will take an inexperienced person, such as a domain expert/QA, more effort to figure out.
Thus providing a good example of what another poster had to say above:
Code which has been written to demonstrate how well the developer knows the language, at the expense of readability and reliability - developer arrogance
congrats!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
