Re: `file-attribute' accessors

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Why not keys instead of many accessor functions?
>
> Because `file-attributes' already has an optional parameter, and one
> sometimes wants to have, say, both the uid and the size, and statting
> the file twice to get that isn't optimal.
Without key argument i.e only filename, you have all in a proplist, so
you do not have to call function many times to have diverses infos.

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