Sorry, but the answer to your question is no.
When dealing with asynchronous requests, functions must return before the result can be accessed. To address this issue, a callback pattern is often used - instead of expecting a return value from a function, you provide it with a callback function that will be executed once the result is available.
Let's take a look at a basic example:
var someValue;
fetchValueFrom('http://example.com/some/url/with/value', function(val) {
someValue = val;
doSomethingElseWith(someValue);
});
In this code snippet, we define a function and pass it as a callback to the fetchValueFrom
function. When the value is retrieved, this callback function will be triggered, setting the variable and executing another function to continue the program flow.