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: Mine is perfectly serviceable for the small text I wanted a count of, and cost me no effort or time to write.
: For me (and for anyone familiar with the tradition of composing pure functions, and with that well-established ML tradition of function names, subsequently adopted by various other languages) my version is familiar and easy to read, with a good ratio of signal-to-noise. We can glance at it and see immediately how it defines the problem. Referring to the detail of how each familiar abstraction is implemented, can give the curious some useful insight into the paricular quirks and data structures of AppleScript.
: Your version is clearly more legible to you, but do remember that to others it may also look like a cloud of squid ink, spreading densely and noisily past the Rosetta code 80 character limit, and folding a bit wildly, while tracing through a series of state mutations which, in formal terms, is very much more complex, and very much less safe and predictable, and much harder to model, than any composition of pure functions.
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