Here's a smart one liner for you!

This line of code uses a pretty ingenious way to manipulate the range of a number. In this short, we take a quick look to understand how it works!
While this is not really good programming practice because it puts too many operations on one line (as opposed to using if-statements), it takes quite a smart approach at solving this problem!
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[@Eyetrauma]

I’ve become so mindbroken by interview quizzes that nowadays when I face a problem that has a straightforward series of conditionals that would satisfy the problem I find myself sitting there obsessing over whether or not there isn’t some modulo, shift or other operation trick that would do it instead. Sure it’s less readable, but what if leetcode types flex on me oh naurrrrr

[@NERDfirst]

Oh I absolutely get you. I did code golf at one point and it absolutely ruined my ability to write "normal" code for a while. Gotta rein it in and remind yourself not everything needs to be solved using a fancy big brain move.

[@kevintyrrell7409]

In my opinion I think if the one-liner was documented with:
// clamps value to domain [0, 10]
then the functional approach would be objectively more clear and concise. Of course the if statement approach is faster due to lack of the function call overhead.

[@NERDfirst]

Hello and thank you for your comment! I can definitely see how a good comment can help making the statement easier to understand, though I wouldn't necessarily say it is _objectively_ better if you think about it from a cognitive load standpoint - Two if-statements are effortless to understand, debug, and adapt. The functional method takes a moment's pause.