Result value must be used check #8240Description
Hello.
Quite often while working with ImmutableJS data structures and other immutable libraries people forget that values are immutable:
They can accidentally write:
obj.set('name', 'newName');
Instead of:
let newObj = obj.set('name', 'newName');
These errors are hard to discover and they are very annoying. I think that this problem can't be solved by tslint, so I propose to add some sort of "you must use the result" check into the compiler. But right now I have no idea how I want it to be expressed in the language, so I create this issue mainly to start a discussion.
Rust lang, for example, solves a similar problem with #[must_use] annotation. This is not exact what we want, but it's a good example and shows that the problem is quite common.