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anonymous123
5,794 PointsWhat is a declaration?
Why do people say "declare the function" when only statements with let, const, or var are declarations? MDN has only those three keywords listed under the declaration section.
1 Answer
Richard Verbraak
7,739 PointsDeclaring a function is simply a way of saying, give the function a name so it can be called back and used by the compiler. You just define what the function does, the same way you declare variables.
Just a figure of speech in this case ;)