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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Function is changing a global variable, the global variable is checked after every call to the function. That's your return value.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I spent 3 hours debugging the serialization code to find out it the crash was because the function didn't have a return statement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Sorry, cannot relate; Everything is a boolean when you're using JavaScript.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That's..... Terrible. Truly the stuff of nightmares!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago