Strange Javascript statement

Question

if (1) {
  google_conversion_value = 1;
}

What is the meaning of the above statement? I mean, this looks like it will always execute so why bother with the if statement?

updated: one reason might be remnants of scripting on the server side. Any other ideas?

updated2: could as easily change the value of the assignment without bothering with the if statement, no?

Answer 1

There are two likely explanations:

1. It's a leftover from debugging.
2. The file containing this code is generated dynamically and the original sourcecode contains something like if(<?php echo $some_stuff_enabled; ?>)

However, in the latter case it would have been cleaner to output that code block only if the condition is met - but maybe it's used in some crappy template engine that just allows replacements but no conditionals...