I actually see the set as more readable, but even if we disagree, I see that example as somewhat of an edge case. You're not going to see that kind of code a lot (you shouldn't anyway), and if you do and it looks ugly, it's probably because it shouldn't exist. Setting a whole boatload of global variables on timers smells of bad code to me... I really doubt that would be the worst of the readability issues in such a script. Of course, that's no reason not to add it, but like I said, IMO these scenarios are fairly uncommon-- why optimize readability on the uncommon scenarios?
