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Discussion on: Ternary Operators In JavaScript

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Thomas Junkツ

But both sets overlap ;)

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Alain Van Hout • Edited

Only to a limited degree. The techniques tend to be quite different. In most cases, concise code involves a meticulous architecture, while dense code involves syntactical tricks.

Or to put it in another way: concise code is thoughtful, while dense code is 'clever' <shudder>.

Their respective goals are also quite different. Concise code optimizes for less logic and more semantics, while dense code optimizes purely for less characters and/or lines.