$spacer_close - redundant?

[Jon12345]

I recently upgraded from 3.8.1 to 3.8.6. I noticed some of my templates were a bit out of date so I reverted the postbit one. Since I had customised this template, I added back in my customisations. However, I noticed that the 3.8.6 postbit template doesn't make use of $spacer_close.

Is $spacer_close essentially old code that has no place in 3.8.6?

An example of use of this code that I added back in is here:

<if condition="$show['spacer']">
    </div>
    $spacer_close
</if>
<!-- / post #$post[postid] -->

I wanted to make sure my customisations are as they were before and since my old code had it, it goes back in!

Is $spacer_close replaced by something else now?

Thanks,

Jon

[Trevor Hannant]

if you search in templates via:

AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Search In Templates

you'll see that $spacer_close is still called within several templates.