but you can always use simple macros to stay away from that but i agree in some points making it 3 lines is better rather than making 1 line in more cpmlex way.

also linecount explain nothing and doesnt make a project better, what counts here is efficency and understanabilty of the algorithms.

i have a project with 3321 line in 9 files, it was around 15k lines in 4 files, and doing the same thing.