The answer is NaN (Not a Number).
Here's why:
-
Variable Declaration and Assignment:
var x, y = 1;
declares bothx
andy
. However, onlyy
is initialized to 1.x
remainsundefined
.
-
Addition with
undefined
:- When JavaScript performs
x + y
, it's addingundefined
(the value ofx
) to 1 (the value ofy
). In JavaScript,undefined
plus a number results inNaN
.
- When JavaScript performs
-
Invalid Assignment:
- The most crucial point is that
x + y = ...
is not a valid assignment in JavaScript. You're trying to assign a value to the result of an addition, which isn't a variable. This would cause a runtime error in a browser or other JavaScript environment. If you were trying to assign the sum back to x, you would writex = x + y;
or the shorthandx += y;
- The most crucial point is that
If the code were intended to initialize both x
and y
to 1, it should have been var x = 1, y = 1;
. Then x + y
would correctly evaluate to 2.