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Kim Dallas
11,461 Pointsim stuck again
i don't understand
function returnValue (){
}
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 Points"Create a function named returnValue that accepts a single argument (you can name it anything), then immediately returns that argument."
Let me break this down a bit:
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"Create a function named returnValue": This part you've already done, you defined a function called
returnValue
function returnValue(){
}
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" that accepts a single argument (you can name it anything)": We give a function a parameter that let's it accept an argument by adding that parameter name inside the parens
(). I'm going to call this paramatervalue.
function returnValue(value) {
}
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"then immediately returns that argument.": We can return things from a function with the
returnkeyword, and it will return whatever is after it on the same line. In this case, we're just going to return whatever argument was passed in to thevalueparameter.
function returnValue(value) {
return value;
}
So if someone called returnValue(5) this would just return the number 5. If we ran:
var result = returnValue(5);
console.log(result);
It would print "5" to the console.