Guess there's points to be made for either choice. It seems to be a matter largely of choosing between clear but verbose and concise but less obvious approaches.. the question is when verbosity detracts from clarity and when not - a choice that's probably going to be taken differently by every programmer. Well, given Perl 6 (pun intended), we won't have to choose.. now if only it was here.

Makeshifts last the longest.