Stutter, stutter.

[azurelunatic]

I can't talk. I stutter. I write the same words I would say on the board. I know what the names of the things are. I can't say the words that are the actions, how they play with each other and change each other. They dance together, and I can say how they work with the arrows, but the words don't work.

They modify.
They update.
Change.
Flag.
Return.

Why can I not say that because it changes a bool, it does not have to return? How can I say this in English? The query returns a value. Not the update. Unless we want to know that the update had been successful. Only then.

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[boojum.livejournal.com]

"[B]ecause it changes a bool, it does not have to return[.]...The query returns a value. Not the update. Unless we want to know that the update had been successful."

That's fairly explanatory, to me. You could reword it to be complete sentences, which would be less abrupt: "It doesn't have to return a value, because it's not querying anything. Unless we want an error code returned to know if the update was successful, it can just return void." I don't think there's a specific word for it.

Are you being N%?