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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Variables Hoisting

Ai Francisco
Ai Francisco
5,640 Points
Posted by Ai Francisco
Ai Francisco
5,640 Points

Js Hoisting?

Hello guys! I can't get this challenge task, so I badly need your help. It says that I should assign the 'status' in the if statement, which I did like below. I moved var status = "I'll close when I'm ready."; inside (just below) the function. What other things is need to do to make this code work? Thank you in advance for your help!

function elevatorCloseButton(pushed) {
var status = "I'll close when I'm ready.";
    if (pushed) {
            console.log("closed", status)           
    }   
}
elevatorCloseButton(true);
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hoisting

2 Answers

Geoff Parsons
Geoff Parsons
11,679 Points

In this case we're looking to have the status variable only get set if pushed evaluates to true (so inside of the conditional) but we'd like to use it outside of the conditional. To this end we'll need to declare the status variable outside of the conditional and set it to "I'll close when I'm ready." inside the conditional. Make sense?

Ai Francisco
Ai Francisco
5,640 Points
Ai Francisco
Ai Francisco
5,640 Points

Thank you Geoff and Jeff, I did not come up with that, it makes a lot more sense now!! :))