[fnovd]

>You can not use if "statements" as expressions in Javascript (which sucks quite a bit).

It does indeed, and it leads to some ugly code:

a = function() { if(1>0) { return "Yay" } else { return "Nay" } }()

[ziad-saab]

You can also write:

a = 1 > 0 ? "Yay" : "Nay"