JS: Ignore returned exprs in defensive programming query#3627
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The initial evaluation looked bad. Apart from the performance (possibly noise), we lost two TPs due to ignoring returned expressions. I've reverted the change to returned expressions and left in the special-cased check for |
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The unneeded defensive code query would sometimes flag the return value of a function as being a defensive code pattern, which doesn't seem like it qualifies as a defensive code pattern.
This "fixes" #3626 although in a somewhat indirect way.