[tex-k] Unnecessary check in dvitype
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Mon Jul 12 22:33:53 CEST 2021
Hi Lucas,
[In dvitype module 36]
@ @<Store character-width indices...@>=
if wp>0 then for k:=width_ptr to wp-1 do
the condition is unnecessary [...]
Agreed, but Knuth has consistently declined to make "cleanliness"
changes like this at this late date. Also, there are a number of other
cases of unnecessary loop protections.
DRF had some comments about how it may have come about, so I added an
entry at:
https://tug.org/texmfbug/nobug.html#dvitypecond
Thanks for the report nonetheless,
Karl
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