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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I had a visceral reaction to this because obviously the wish count should be decremented before the wish takes place. Even though I can't think up a convincing technical argument for it.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I had a visceral reaction to this because obviously the wish count should be decremented before the wish takes place.

Why? Shouldn't you decrement the limited resource the user has access to in case the thing you are doing fails?

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

You’d need a check to make sure they don’t wish for something not allowed (like more wishes).