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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? One liners, quick rant... Post 302977352 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 16th of July 2016 02:17:05 PM
Old 07-16-2016
One liners are "cool". In a perjorative sense. They cause unnecessary maintenance and development problems because of the difficulty in mentally parsing and debugging them. It is code obfuscation. It is the same thing as the code obfuscation contest for C code - except that contest is meant to be fun and ridiculous. 'one-liners' are not.

I've seen similar sentiments expressed here by a lot of folks.
 

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NAME
Rant - Flexible, Ruby based make SYNOPSIS
The rant-import command creates a monolithic rant script tailored to the needs of your project and thus removes the dependency on an Rant installation (but of course one person needs an Rant installation to run rant-import). Run the command with the --help option to get a brief help message: % rant-import --help Probably the easiest way to create your monolithic rant script is with the --auto option: % rant-import --auto ant This will write a monolithic rant script to the file ant in the current directory. To determine which plugins and imports your project is using, it performs step 2 of the rant command as described in doc/rant.rdoc, which means that it loads the Rantfile in the current direc- tory. That one command should be enough: % ruby ant This script has the same behaviour as the rant command. Distribute it with your project and nobody else but you needs an Rant installation. FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information on Rant see: <http://make.rubyforge.org/> <http://make.rubyforge.org/files/doc/rant-import_rdoc.html> AUTHOR
Rant is by Stefan Lang This package is maintained by Ralph Amissah SEE
rant(1) version 0.5.6 July 26, 2006 rant-import(1)
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