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We recommend wrapping your code block with curly braces `{}` every time you use an `if` statement, even if there is only one statement to execute. Doing so improves readability.

## Boolean conversion
## Boolean conversion [#boolean-conversion]

The `if (…)` statement evaluates the expression in its parentheses and converts the result to a boolean.

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As we can see, the result is always `true` except for the case when both operands are `false`.

If an operand is not a boolean, it's converted to a boolean for the evaluation.
If an operand is not a boolean, it's converted to a boolean for the evaluation. This is part of the familiar [truthy/falsy](info:ifelse#boolean-conversion) concept.

For instance, the number `1` is treated as `true`, the number `0` as `false`:

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