Basic algorithm scripting: Boo who(1)

hello, I am having some difficulty in solving this particular problem : -

I have searched for ways to go around it but on the part about primitive boolean I don’t understand it.
In particular, what does this exercise require me to do.

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It should return true if it’s s boolean.
Boolean is true and false.

So if it’s false, it should return true,
And if it’s true it should return true.

When I did this challenge I used an if statement to check if it was a boolean.
If you use == it won’t work, use === when checking in the if statement.
The reason for this is, because it needs to be only a boolean.

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I have tried to use the “strictly” operator and the rest of the code is working.
but the first two cases where it should return true is not working. what am I not doing right.

A fun fact about JavaScript and perhaps other programming languages is that a comparison is a boolean so if did this

const example () => 1 === 1;
console.log(example()) //true;

It returns true :slight_smile:

can I see your code?

okay, here it is:-

function booWho(bool) {
  if (bool === Boolean) {
    return true;
  }else{
    return false;
  }
}

booWho(null);

This is not how you check the type of a variable :wink:

I should use the ‘typeof’ method then in this case a variable.

@JeremyLT , @caryaharper and @amejl172 hey guys, this the code I came up with just now:-

function booWho(bool) {
  var i = !!(bool);
  if (i === bool) {
    return true;
  }else{
    return false;
  }
}

booWho(null);

and it worked. yes :smiley: :smiley:

Yeah, that will work to. You’re doing a mildly verbose version of checking that a variable is strictly equivalent to itself cast as a boolean. I think the intended solution is to use typeOf.

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