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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements Boolean Values

Dylan Carter
Dylan Carter
1,046 Points
Posted by Dylan Carter
Dylan Carter
1,046 Points

Why is this method better than a just asking if their guess was 6 for the conditional statement?

it seems like it would be a lot easier to do

let guess = prompt("Guess a number 1 to 10");

if (guess === 6) {

console.log("thats correct")

}

else {

console.log("thats incorrect")

}

is there a reason storing the value as a boolean is better here? or is this maybe just a dumbed down example for understanding the concept and it will be applied better in the future?

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

You're right that the example is to illustrate working with booleans and isn't necessarily the best way to handle a particular task.

However, you couldn't use the type-sensitive equality operator to match a string with a number. But you could do:

if (guess === "6") {  // match string with string
// ...or...
if (+guess === 6) {   // match number with number
// ...or...
if (guess == 6) {     // use normal (type coercing) comparison
James Summers
James Summers
704 Points
James Summers
James Summers
704 Points

Because then someone could lie to the computer