Explanation needed!

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Like many others, this is what I did and it works perfectly. BUT, why does it not work for only 0 and 1, when the non-strict equal sign == is used?

Your code so far


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

console.log(booWho());

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Boo who

Link to the challenge:

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Hello and welcome to the freeCodeCamp community~!

When you use the loose equality operator ==, JavaScript will try to convert types for you. 0 and 1 are used to represent true/false in binary (and some programming languages, I believe) and JavaScript can convert them to false or true, which passes a == check. It fails a strict equality === because the data types do not match (JavaScript will not convert types here).

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hi. the problem is that you should check them with strict equality to ensure that type will be matched too, as the challenge asked.

4

Hi @xbeeee!

I have edited your post with [spoiler] and [/spoiler] tags on the line above and below your solution code.

This is for those users in the forum who have not done this challenge yet.

Thanks!

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