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Why are anonymous functions passed into variables?

So, I'm using freecodecamp and it says that the following function is anonymous:

const myFunc = () => {
  const myVar = "value";
  return myVar;
}

console.log(myFunc.name);

Well, how come it's anonymous if its name is clearly "myFunc"?

7 months ago · Santiago Gelvez

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Answer 1 · 2022-07-08T17:26:21.388Z

You are setting myFunc to reference an anonymous function. myFunc has a name, the anonymous function it references does not.

const myFunc = () => {
  const myVar = "value";
  return myVar;
}

// This returns myFunc name
console.log(myFunc.name);

// This returns anonymous function's name which is blank
console.log(
(() => {
  const myVar = "value";
  return myVar;
}).name
);