>Your intention can be understood as the promotion of code golfing, as evidenced by these words: The fragment BEGIN{total=0} can be skipped by which you're clea

>Your intention can be understood as the promotion of code golfing, as evidenced by these words: The fragment BEGIN{total=0} can be skipped by which you're clearly encouraging that other coder to make their code shorter by removing an initialization that works fine. Your statement (above) can be "understood" as not understanding my prior statement(s), including the one in which I said "Don't try to read my mind" (w.r.t. intention, because you cannot - it is mine (mind), not yours). If you cannot grok that after a second explanation, I have nothing further to say. Good day.