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[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 13 points 1 year 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.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

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