Does it matter? There will be a point at which an extra line makes the difference. And particularly with modern screen shapes, vertical space is at much more of a premium than horizontal space.
> Honestly arguments about how "pretty" code is are fucking ridiculous. Despite what someone said, the purpose of source code is not to be "read" with "running" as a secondary task. That literally only applies to code written purely for educational purposes. > The purpose of code is to achieve the goals of the software as efficiently as possible. Efficiency is not just about speed - a fast but unreliable program is not efficient.
The ability to understand software is vital to real-world usefulness though. Requirements change all the time, and so the ability to make changes to software is vital - and to effect desired changes to code you must first understand it.