Shared & user-defined variable behavior when they are passed an error?

If a [TRUE] error condition is preset at its input terminal:
What is the expected behavior for a shared variable which is being read?             My guess: To return the default value for the datatype being read.
What is the expected behavior for a user-defined variable which is being read?     My guess: To return the default value for the datatype being read.
What is the expected behavior for a shared variable which is being written?         My guess: To not update the value of the variable.
What is the expected behavior for a user-defined variable which is being written? My guess: To not update the value of the variable.
Are my guesses at the behavior correct? If not, what is the real behavior? This is for LabVIEW version 11 and newer.
Thanks!
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Thank you Arham! I'm sorry you had to go to the trouble of creating a test VI to get the answer. I thought that this might have been documented somewhere and I was just missing it. It still may be documented somewhere but sometimes creating a test VI is the quicker path to an answer than is a search for where the documentation is stored and the test VI is probably the more conclusive answer anyway.
In any case, thanks to your answer, it is now documented in a manner that should not be too hard for others to find, should they have the same question.
Thanks again.

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