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per1234 opened this issue Jul 16, 2017 · 1 comment
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Incorrect return type in SoftwareSerial.listen() reference page #6507

per1234 opened this issue Jul 16, 2017 · 1 comment
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per1234 commented Jul 16, 2017

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/SoftwareSerialListen says:

Returns
None

but actually it returns a bool:
https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/1.8.3/hardware/arduino/avr/libraries/SoftwareSerial/src/SoftwareSerial.h#L95

bool listen();
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Updated and pushed the Reference page with
"Returns
boolean: Returns true if it replaces another"
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