Terse ifs

- [Instructor] In this video we're going to look at a few…of the forms in which if statements will be made shorter.…You may write these in your own code,…and you will certainly see them if you start looking…at other people's JavaScript code.…First, the one liner.…So I'm setting a variable up here, for a cherub,…who is going to start out as Cupid.…I have a comment for making the cherub Some Other Guy.…So first we're going to copy these first few lines…and bring them over to the browser.…You'll notice that I've put this if statement entirely…on one line with no curly braces, and it will still work.…

There, so I executed it, and the cherub is Cupid,…so having checked that, I still log this message…to the console, even though there's no curly braces.…Likewise, I can include an else block on the next line,…again with no curly braces, and it'll still work.…Let's paste this in.…We know the cherub is still cupid.…So, I'm still getting the same message,…but if I change the cherub to some other guy,…and then I execute this line again,…