Why is this boolean value changing?

Questions & Answers
1

Is it not possible in UnityScript to change the value of a boolean variable with the NOT operator?

This is what I would expect:

var x = true;
var y = true;

var x = !y; 
//variable x is now false

Is this not something you can do in UnityScript? I believe it works in regular JavaScript…

2

You are redeclaring variable x, otherwise your example will work. The problem is that your variable is probably overridden from inspector.
Im a c# programmer mostly, but i tried this example and is works perfectly.

private var x:boolean = true;
private var y:boolean = true;
 
private var a:boolean = !y;

private function Start():void{
    Debug.Log(a); //prints false
}
3

Sure you can. It works as expected, though you need to remove “var” from the third line since you can’t declare the same variable twice.

4

Remove the var in
“var x = !y;”