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Rick Hoen
1,257 PointsAdding Instance Methods
I'm not getting this challenge. It keeps saying "Make sure your function does not take any parameters and returns a String". So I did not add any parameters between the brackets but that does not seem to help.
The preview however keeps saying that I've added a non-void value to a void function.
I have no clue how else to code this challenge, because for instance a "for in loop" does not seem applicable here.
Can anyone help me out with this problem?
struct Person {
let firstName: String
let lastName: String
func fullName() {
let wholeName: String = "\(firstName), \(lastName)"
return wholeName
}
}
4 Answers
Barnabas Abraham
3,940 PointsHi Rick,
It may be you need to specifically state here the return of that function just after the parentheses if you've come across that before?
Apart from that, there appears to be a stray comma in your let wholeName build there?
Jeff McDivitt
23,970 PointsHi Rick -
struct Person {
let firstName: String
let lastName: String
//For step 1 you want to create the method that takes no arguments but returns a string of first and last Name
func fullName() -> String {
return "\(firstName) \(lastName)"
}
}
//For step 2 you want to call the method and then assign to a constant
let aPerson = Person(firstName: "Jeff", lastName: "McDivitt")
let myFullName = aPerson.fullName()
Jordan Ward
2,395 PointsHi Jeff, in step one how come you use interpolation. I tried to do this with concatenation but it didn't work. Why is that?
Myron Hicks
2,875 PointsYour func is void but you are returning a string. The function signature should indicate that it returns a string. Make sense?
Jeff McDivitt
23,970 PointsHi Jordan - This works with string concatenation as well
struct Person {
let firstName: String
let lastName: String
func fullName() -> String {
return firstName + " " + lastName
}
}
let aPerson = Person(firstName: "Jeff", lastName: "McDivitt")
let myFullName = aPerson.fullName()
Donald Zarraonandia
4,434 PointsDonald Zarraonandia
4,434 PointsI see two mistakes in the above code. One the task calls for a space between firstName and lastName not a ,
This will send it back.
Second you need to specify what the function will return. An example of this would say a func needs to return an Int.
You would write func someFunc() -> Int{}