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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Storing and Tracking Information with Variables Variables Review

Posted by robinhickson
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robinhickson
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 18,162 Points

Invalid JS code questions

The question is something like; which is invalid code, and one of the answers (fortunately the least right answer) is constweeksPerYear = 52. But is this strictly true? Is this really invalid code? I could have declared constweeksPerYear as a variable earlier, and now changed the value to 52. Surely this is not invalid, just because of the letters const at the beginning of the variable name? Not good, not clever name for a variable, I know, but invalid??

1 Answer

Liam Clarke
Liam Clarke
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Hello

The quiz is not saying the constweeksPerYear is invalid because of the keywork at the start, this is valid. It is saying it is invalid because there is no space between const and weeksPerYear.

You are right in that you will not get an error (unless your in strict mode) as you can create a variable without a prefix in JS, although not recommended and you definitely should not do it.

Given that every other example uses the variable prefix of const it is correct to assume that the invalid one is the one without the space constweeksPerYear as a typo.

robinhickson
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robinhickson
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 18,162 Points

Yes, thanks - as I thought. I suppose it looks like I'm being pedantic; but just wanted to clarify whether the example constweeksPerYear was by definition somehow invalid: but it's not; it's just the least valid answer offered. i.e. it's poor coding, not necessarily invalid coding.