issue_comments: 1460905469

I'd really like to extract this ugly logic out into a helper function:

https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/db1a88f4e17a1f50bdaa681e8beddb2276503e7c/datasette/views/table.py#L1617-L1684

I copied it in and asked ChatGPT to "List all of the variable that are either modified or assigned to by the above code":

Modified variables:

offset
where_clauses
params
order_by

Assigned variables:

sort_value
next_by_pk_clauses
order_by (when sort or sort_desc is not None)

Then I asked which variables were used as inputs, and argued with it a bit about whether it should be counting functions. Eventually got to this:

My apologies for the oversight. Here are the variables needed as input by the above code, excluding any functions:

_next
is_view
sort
sort_desc
use_rowid
pks
order_by

Note that use_rowid is actually defined earlier in terms of two of those other variables: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/db1a88f4e17a1f50bdaa681e8beddb2276503e7c/datasette/views/table.py#L1540