get_the_date() - useless var and concatenation

[juliobox]

Hello

Function get_the_date():

function get_the_date( $d = '' ) {
	        $post = get_post();
	        $the_date = '';

	        if ( '' == $d )
	                $the_date .= mysql2date(get_option('date_format'), $post->post_date);
	        else
	                $the_date .= mysql2date($d, $post->post_date);
	
	        return apply_filters('get_the_date', $the_date, $d);
	}

$the_date = ''; is useless.

So the 2 .= are useless too.

My 2 cents ;)

[juliobox]

Thank you Sergey!

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 27230:

Remove unnecessary assignment and concatenation from the_date() and get_the_date().

props juliobox.
fixes #27181.

[TobiasBg]

Simplify/Cleanup get_the_date() and fix return type

[TobiasBg]

Argh, I'm too slow today :-) I had a slightly different simplification, but that's ok.
We might however as well fix the inline docs of get_the_date() while working on it.

[SergeyBiryukov]

27181.2.patch​ would change the $d value passed to the filter, but the docs fix looks good.

[TobiasBg]

Good call there... Scratch that code change then.

[TobiasBg]

Just the docs change

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 27231:

Correct @return value for get_the_date().

props TobiasBg.
fixes #27181.