How come the last line of following code prints " I found a Spade" always?
var cards = ['Diamond', 'Spade', 'Heart', 'Club'];
var currentCard = 'Heart';
while(currentCard !=='Spade'){
console.log(currentCard);
var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random()*4);
currentCard = cards[randomNumber];
}
console.log('I found a '+ cards[randomNumber]);
Isnt the " randomNumber" only accesible in the while loop function?Also isn’t it random?
The loop will run until it find a spade, it might take 1 attempt, maybe a hundred, but it will find a spade, sooner or later. So at the end of the day, it will always tell you it found a spade
while loop is not a function, its a statement. So unless you use block scope variable (defined with let or const) the variable randomNumber will be global
if we defined var randomNumber in a function, then yes, the scope would have been local.
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