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Using Function Declarations with JavaScript
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// Using a function declaration, I cannot assign different values to a variable conditionally.
// All declarations will be hoisted to the top of the code and the latest declaration will apply.
var day = 'Friday';
if (day === 'Friday') {
function myGreeting () {
return "Happy Friday!";
}
}
else {
function myGreeting () {
return "Good morning!";
}
}
console.log(myGreeting()); // Logs "Good Morning!".
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Want to have Happy Friday? Run this code in Firefox :)
MDN says that conditional declaration should work according to es3, but now deprecated in es5 strict.

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Isn't that what I mentioned in the comment at the top? Or are you referring to something else? I added in the parens necessary to call the function in the console.log so I think I'm all set now. Am I missing something?

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