From 053209679147a278d38944c6a93d5d28328ebd35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Douglas Christopher Wilson <doug@somethingdoug.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 08:20:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] lint: remove unreachable code branches

---
 lib/read.js       | 8 ++++----
 lib/types/json.js | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/read.js b/lib/read.js
index 3c0fe936..ca0d5bda 100644
--- a/lib/read.js
+++ b/lib/read.js
@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ module.exports = read
  * @param {function} next
  * @param {function} parse
  * @param {function} debug
- * @param {object} [options]
- * @api private
+ * @param {object} options
+ * @private
  */
 
 function read (req, res, next, parse, debug, options) {
   var length
-  var opts = options || {}
+  var opts = options
   var stream
 
   // flag as parsed
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ function read (req, res, next, parse, debug, options) {
 
   // read options
   var encoding = opts.encoding !== null
-    ? opts.encoding || 'utf-8'
+    ? opts.encoding
     : null
   var verify = opts.verify
 
diff --git a/lib/types/json.js b/lib/types/json.js
index d0023c7b..469123a7 100644
--- a/lib/types/json.js
+++ b/lib/types/json.js
@@ -138,12 +138,11 @@ function json (options) {
  *
  * @param {string} str
  * @return {function}
- * @api public
+ * @private
  */
 
 function firstchar (str) {
-  var match = FIRST_CHAR_REGEXP.exec(str)
-  return match ? match[1] : ''
+  return FIRST_CHAR_REGEXP.exec(str)[1]
 }
 
 /**