Letters to a novice programmer

Dear novice, it has been a while since my last letter. Today I want to stress the importance of revisiting your code every couple of months or so and asking yourself "could I achieve the same functionality with less code?". In other words, be your own garbage collector. If you do this a couple of times, your code might graduate from being miserable to being tolerable. And who knows, one day it might even attain the coveted status of being "elegant"?

Today's example concerns avoiding unnecessary local variables to reduce clutter:

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