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Eloquent JavaScript
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Eloquent JavaScript

by Marijn Haverbeke
January 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 43m
English
No Starch Press
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Variables

How does a program keep an internal state? How does it remember things? We have seen how to produce new values from old values, but this does not change the old values, and the new value has to be immediately used or it will dissipate again. To catch and hold values, JavaScript provides a thing called a variable.

var caught = 5 * 5;

A variable always has a name, and it can point at a value, holding on to it. The previous statement creates a variable called caught and uses it to grab hold of the number that is produced by multiplying 5 by 5.

After a variable has been defined, its name can be used as an expression that produces the value it holds. Here’s an example:

var ten = 10;
ten * ten;
→ 100

The word var is used to create a new variable. ...

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