Subj : Re: [SpiderMonkey] Strange Lack of Knowledge for DefineFunction
To   : Brian Barnes
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Apr 29 2004 11:04 pm

Brian Barnes wrote:
> I've been using this engine heavily for about 2 years and I just 
> realized there's something real simple I don't know, and I can't find 
> the answer in the docs ...
> 
> If I define a function in an object (JS_DefineFunctions), I always end 
> the C version by returning JS_TRUE.  What happens if I did JS_FALSE?  I 
> tried, it doesn't seem to make a difference!


It does, but the JS shell hides the silent error.  Returning false means 
the function failed, and should have either reported an error, or thrown 
an exception.

/be

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