Em ter., 11 de jul. de 2023 às 19:34, Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to> escreveu:
On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 5:37 PM Karina Litskevich <litskevichkarina@gmail.com> wrote: > My point is, technically right now you won't see any difference in output > if you remove the line. Because if we get to that line the need_recordsep > is already true. However, understanding why it is true is complicated. That's > why if you remove the line people who read the code will wonder why we don't > need a separator after "fputs"ing a footer. So keeping that line will make > the code more readable. > Moreover, removing the line will possibly complicate the future maintenance. > As I wrote in the part you just quoted, if the function changes in the way > that need_recordsep is not true right before printing footers any more, then > output will be unexpected.
I agree with Karina here. Either this patch should keep the "need_recordsep = true;" line, thus removing the no-op assignment to false and making the code slightly less unreadable; or the entire function should be refactored for readability.
As there is consensus to keep the no-op assignment,
