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1-js/05-data-types/01-primitives-methods/1-string-new-property/solution.md

@@ -6,26 +6,21 @@ let str = "Hello";
 
 str.test = 5; // (*)
 
-alert(str.test); 
+alert(str.test);
 ```
 
-There may be two kinds of result:
+Depending on whether you have `use strict` or not, the result may be:
-1. `undefined`
+1. `undefined` (no string)
-2. An error.
+2. An error (strict mode).
 
 Why? Let's replay what's happening at line `(*)`:
 
 1. When a property of `str` is accessed, a "wrapper object" is created.
-2. The operation with the property is carried out on it. So, the object gets the `test` property.
+2. In strict mode, writing into it is an error.
-3. The operation finishes and the "wrapper object" disappears.
+3. Otherwise, the operation with the property is carried on, the object gets the `test` property, but after that the "wrapper object" disappears.
 
-So, on the last line, `str` has no trace of the property. A new wrapper object for every object operation on a string.
+So, without strict mode, in the last line `str` has no trace of the property.
-
-Some browsers though may decide to further limit the programmer and disallow to assign properties to primitives at all. That's why in practice we can also see errors at line `(*)`. It's a little bit farther from the specification though.
 
 **This example clearly shows that primitives are not objects.**
 
-They just can not store data. 
+They can't store additional data.
-
-All property/method operations are performed with the help of temporary objects.
-

1-js/05-data-types/01-primitives-methods/article.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ A primitive
 An object
 
 - Is capable of storing multiple values as properties.
-- Can be created with `{}`, for instance: `{name: "John", age: 30}`. There are other kinds of objects in JavaScript; functions, for example, are objects.
+- Can be created with `{}`, for instance: `{name: "John", age: 30}`. There are other kinds of objects in JavaScript: functions, for example, are objects.
 
 One of the best things about objects is that we can store a function as one of its properties.
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The solution looks a little bit awkward, but here it is:
 
 1. Primitives are still primitive. A single value, as desired.
 2. The language allows access to methods and properties of strings, numbers, booleans and symbols.
-3. When this happens, a special "object wrapper" that provides the extra functionality is created, and then is destroyed.
+3. In order for that to work, a special "object wrapper" that provides the extra functionality is created, and then is destroyed.
 
 The "object wrappers" are different for each primitive type and are called: `String`, `Number`, `Boolean` and `Symbol`. Thus, they provide different sets of methods.
 
@@ -91,18 +91,18 @@ In JavaScript, that's also possible for historical reasons, but highly **unrecom
 For instance:
 
 ```js run
-alert( typeof 1 ); // "number"
+alert( typeof 0 ); // "number"
 
-alert( typeof new Number(1) ); // "object"!
+alert( typeof new Number(0) ); // "object"!
 ```
 
-And because what follows, `zero`, is an object, the alert will show up:
+Objects are always truthy in `if`, so here the alert will show up:
 
 ```js run
 let zero = new Number(0);
 
 if (zero) { // zero is true, because it's an object
-  alert( "zero is truthy?!?" );
+  alert( "zero is truthy!?!" );
 }
 ```