Re^4: Counting bytes in a Unicode document

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Re^5: Counting bytes in a Unicode document by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 15, 2024 at 15:38 UTC
If it's worth mentioning, it's as something to avoid. `-s _` is a million times more readable than `+(stat(_))[7]`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Counting bytes in a Unicode document by etj (Priest) on Oct 23, 2024 at 08:55 UTC
The point, which regrettably you missed, wasn't the `(stat etc)[n]` idiom. It's the use of `_` as an argument to these operations to reuse the cached results of the last one.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^7: Counting bytes in a Unicode document by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 23, 2024 at 10:04 UTC
I used "`_`" in the post to which you replied. How could I have missed a point you didn't actually make? Like I said, your version (`(stat(_))[7]`) is—in my opinion—strictly worse than what I posted (`-s _`).	[reply] [d/l] [select]