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a while ago, during a game jam, while i was making some of the worst gdscript i have ever seen, i have encountered a bug
after adding a print to see the value of a variable, the bug disappeared. Confused, i commented out the line i just added. The bug was still fixed
i removed the comment. The bug reappeared
printing to a console could enforce a flush, sync thread or other shenanigans.
usually setting a breakpoint would have the same effect and gives me the suggestion of a threading issue.
the problem wasnt that the print statement fixed the bug
the problem was that even if i removed the print statement and added a comment on that line, the bug would also be fixed