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Unlike strongly typed languages, JavaScript does not enforce a return type on a function. This means that different paths through a function can return different types of values, which can be very confusing to the user and significantly harder to maintain.
== Noncompliant Code Example
----
function foo(a) { // Noncompliant
if (a === 1) {
return true;
}
return 3;
}
----
== Compliant Solution
----
function foo(a) {
if (a === 1) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
----
== Exceptions
Functions returning ``++this++`` are ignored.
----
function foo() {
// ...
return this;
}
----
Functions returning expressions having type ``++any++`` are ignored.
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