Re^6: Counting bytes in a Unicode document

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in thread Counting bytes in a Unicode document

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.

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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]

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