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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Boolean Values

Why is it that he didn't type var before correctGuess=true; in the first if statement?

Boolean Values.

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

A variable can only be declared one time in a program.

On line 1 correctGuess is declared using var and initialized to false. Anywhere later in the program, like in the if statement, the variable can be reassigned by using only its name. It would be incorrect to declare it again.

Fritz-Patrick Atienza
Fritz-Patrick Atienza
5,010 Points

The logic is that correctGuess wouldn't be true until the user types in the right number, so in all other cases, the guess would false.

Jacques Retief
Jacques Retief
954 Points

Well answered, Steven Parker!