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Re:N-queen puzzle in 4 lines of Scala by tyingq on Sunday April 10, 2016 @12:28PM (#11466850)
The context being a deliberate effort to make it compact. You can abuse features in most languages and make it hard to read.
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Re:N-queen puzzle in 4 lines of Scala by ionforce on Sunday April 10, 2016 @12:48PM (#11466967)
Who cares about "compactness"? You weren't golfing. It just sticks out as bad code.
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Re:N-queen puzzle in 4 lines of Scala by tyingq on Sunday April 10, 2016 @12:54PM (#11467002)
Not my code, it was copied (note the attribution) from a specific context where somebody cared about compactness.

Edit: Perl's also not the only language that supports the comma operator, predicate if, ternary, and other things that seem to bother you.

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