easy debug question?

[Bruce Duncan]

I know this has to be easy, but I can't seem to figure it out. I'm debuggin' someone elses code...

x="hello";
+x+"world"

....and I don't get it! What does the "+x+"world" do? If I alert(x) the only thing that comes out is "hello". I also wondered why it doesn't error without the ";" at the end of the line.

I appreciate the help...

-Bruce Duncan
**** feeling dumb today...just wait till tomorrow....****

[kaeli]

In article <10*************@corp.supernews.com>,
bruce~w~duncan@~hotmail.com enlightened us with...

I know this has to be easy, but I can't seem to figure it out. I'm debuggin' someone elses code...

x="hello";
+x+"world"

...and I don't get it! What does the "+x+"world" do?
If I alert(x) the only thing that comes out is "hello".
I also wondered why it doesn't error without the ";" at the end of the line.

I appreciate the help...

Um, I don't think the semi-colon should be there. I think it was
supposed to be one line. Or the second line should have been
x=x+" world";
That code doesn't look like it is valid. Note that browsers don't
necessarily show you errors.

Semi-colons are not required at the end of the line in JS; they are
recommended for clarity if the end of the line is also the end of the
statement.
(the above is a bit simplified)

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[Bruce Duncan]

"kaeli" <ti******@NOSPAM.comcast.net> wrote in message
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In article <10*************@corp.supernews.com>,
bruce~w~duncan@~hotmail.com enlightened us with...

I know this has to be easy, but I can't seem to figure it out. I'm debuggin' someone elses code...
x="hello";
+x+"world"

...and I don't get it! What does the "+x+"world" do?
If I alert(x) the only thing that comes out is "hello".
I also wondered why it doesn't error without the ";" at the end of the line.
I appreciate the help...

Um, I don't think the semi-colon should be there. I think it was
supposed to be one line. Or the second line should have been
x=x+" world";
That code doesn't look like it is valid. Note that browsers don't
necessarily show you errors.

Semi-colons are not required at the end of the line in JS; they are
recommended for clarity if the end of the line is also the end of the
statement.
(the above is a bit simplified)

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~kaeli~
You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart
http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace

I believe you are correct Kaeli!
I was hoping that it wasn't some wierd way of assigning vars that I just
hadn't seen before. My mind isn't working so great this morning...thanks
for the response...it helped open my eyes a bit.

-Bruce Duncan

[Grant Wagner]

Bruce Duncan wrote:

I know this has to be easy, but I can't seem to figure it out.
I'm debuggin' someone elses code... x="hello";
+x+"world"...and I don't get it! What does the "+x+"world"
do? If I alert(x) the only thing that comes out is "hello". I
also wondered why it doesn't error without the ";" at the end
of the line. I appreciate the help... -Bruce Duncan**** feeling
dumb today...just wait till tomorrow....****

The +x + "world" doesn't do anything. Well, actually, it applies
the unary operator to the value of x (returning zero). toString()
is implicitly called on that zero and it is concatentated to the
word "world". The result is a string "0world". However, that
value is never assigned to anything, so it is discarded almost
immediately.

Semi-colons are only required in Javascript when multiple
statements appear on the same line, however, it's a good habit to
put them at the end of every non-block.

As for why this isn't doing what you want, I think what you want
is:

var x = "hello";
x = x + " world"; // notice x + " world" is assigned back to x
// you can also use x += " world";
alert(x);

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