I might be in the minority here, but IMO that snippet does not look nicer and looks pretty ugly. You've got like 3 things going on all jumbled together.
I would not want to encounter that line of code in the wild, or 3 months after writing it, and attempt to parse what it's doing.
I would not want to encounter that line of code in the wild, or 3 months after writing it, and attempt to parse what it's doing.