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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Improving the Random Number Guessing Game

Johnny Harrison
Johnny Harrison
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Posted by Johnny Harrison
Johnny Harrison
4,331 Points

Can we reuse the 'guess' variable?

In my program, I just had the conditional statement overwrite the 'guess' variable instead of making new 'guessLess' and 'guessMore' variables. Is there anything wrong with this approach?

1 Answer

Stamos Bolovinos
Stamos Bolovinos
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Stamos Bolovinos
Stamos Bolovinos
4,320 Points

Hi Johnny

I think I can answer this question, although I'm quite new to JavaScript, but I do have scripting experience in contact center routing strategies.

Overwriting a variable, if you don't need to keep track of the old value, is very common. A variable can get overwritten many times while a script runs.

The only reason I can think of for using more than one variable in this case, is if you wanted to add reporting at the end and display the two guesses to the user. But even in this case, two variables would do the job (e.g. guessSecond).