= within a conditional statement.

I made a coding error which brought up an interesting question. In the second if statement I accidentally put if ( correctGuess = true ) instead of if ( correctGuess === true ). The result was my program always returned that the input was correct, despite the number entered.

SO my initial assumption from this was that the act of assigning a value to a variable can't be a condition in this type of statement. But then why would this return the result of the if statement, rather than the else, or just an error?

The assignment must be happening regardless of it being contained in statement.

Is it both assigning a value and making that assignment a condition? When I leave the brackets empty I get an error returned in the console, so something is happening.

This is my first dive into coding, so I realize this will probably be covered later in the course, but I figured I'd ask!

Incorrect code posted below... Thanks! Joe

let correctGuess = false; const number = 6; const guess = prompt('Guess a number between 1 and 10.')

if ( +guess === number ) { correctGuess = true; }

if ( correctGuess = true ) { console.log('You guessed the number!'); } else { console.log(Sorry. The number was ${number}.); }