Connecting undefined signals

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Hello to all,

Is there a problem in connecting undefined signals?

For example:
get_node('my_node').connect( 'signal', self, 'function')
Now supose that the node my_node have no 'signal' defined.

I tested it and it is working fine for now (the game doesn't crash), but is there a chance it could cause some weird problems in the future? It just seems wrong

Thanks!

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This just sets up listening for that signal. If the signal isn't defined on mynode it won't be emitted, but nothing bad will happen, you'll just never call function.

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Though nothing bad happening could be a bad thing, since it will be hard to catch the error unless you already suspect the signal handling to be broken.

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Thanks for the answer! I asked because I will probably have to reuse the node and not all parents will emit the signal

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