I'm not sure whether this is strictly a Firebug question or really a
JavaScript question...

In the popdown menu under Firebug's Console tab, I normally keep *Show
JavaScript Errors* enabled, and *Show JavaScript Warnings* disabled. Out of
curiosity I just turned the *Warnings* on and reloaded a page I'm building.
As before, the page shows no errors, but now it shows three warnings (with
the exclamation mark in a yellow circle icon).

Two of the warnings say something like "TypeError: function foo does not
always return a value".  I don't understand why that's an issue. Is a
function required to always return a value? I never heard that. And why
would that be a "type error" anyway? I associate type errors with something
like trying to pass a non-number to something that needs a number, etc.

The third warning says "SyntaxError: in strict mode code, functions may be
declared only at top level or immediately within another function". I never
heard that either. In this case, I have a long, complex function with
various nested functions and other code in logical order. It would be much
less clear (to me, not to the computer) if I declared all the functions up
top. And what does "immediately within another function" mean anyway?

What I also don't understand is that, as I said, these messages only appear
when I turn on "Warnings", *not* when I just turn on "Errors"... so why do
they have the word *Error* in the message, like "TypeError" or
"SyntaxError"?

The code runs fine on every browser I've tested it on. Are these warnings
-- or errors, or whatever the heck they are -- anything for me to be really
concerned about?

Thanks, Jonas

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