dhenry:
If those pins are all on the same port, you can ever do it with one statement.
Not if you want the code to stick to using the Arduino core code routines and remain portable
across other boards that use different processors or different variants, i.e.
Arduino Uno vs Arduino Leonardo vs Mega vs Teensy vs Sanguino, Chipkit, Maple, and if it is ever released, Arduino DUE.
--- bill