Is it normal that this.stopped = false appears at the end of publish and not the start?

Let's say we have a call to 
<code>
channel.publish('something', true);
</code>
And we want to know just after we want to know if the propagation has been stopped, is that normal that 
<code>
this.stopped = false;
</code>
appears at the end of the publish method, instead of at the top of it? (as initialization?)
