diff --git a/userspace/engine/falco_engine.cpp b/userspace/engine/falco_engine.cpp
index df74e1a0..952c8a37 100644
--- a/userspace/engine/falco_engine.cpp
+++ b/userspace/engine/falco_engine.cpp
@@ -171,9 +171,8 @@ void falco_engine::load_rules(const string &rules_content, bool verbose, bool al
 					  m_ls);
 	}
 
-	// Note that falco_formats is added to both the lua state used
-	// by the falco engine as well as the separate lua state used
-	// by falco outputs.  Within the engine, only
+	// Note that falco_formats is added to the lua state used
+	// by the falco engine only. Within the engine, only
 	// formats.formatter is used, so we can unconditionally set
 	// json_output to false.
 	bool json_output = false;
diff --git a/userspace/falco/falco_outputs.cpp b/userspace/falco/falco_outputs.cpp
index eec51df9..8274c651 100644
--- a/userspace/falco/falco_outputs.cpp
+++ b/userspace/falco/falco_outputs.cpp
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@ void falco_outputs::init(bool json_output,
 
 	m_json_output = json_output;
 
-	// todo(leogr): explain why falco_formats does not need to be initialized here
+	// Note that falco_formats is already initialized by the engine,
+	// and the following json options are not used within the engine.
+	// So we can safely update them.
 	falco_formats::s_json_output = json_output;
 	falco_formats::s_json_include_output_property = json_include_output_property;