Argument type '(HourlyEmployee).Type' does not conform to expected type 'Payable'

Question

Here's my code:

import UIKit
import Foundation

protocol Payable {
    func pay() -> (basePay: Double, benefits: Double, deductions: Double, vacation: Int)
}

enum EmployeeType {
    case Manager
    case NotManager
}

class Employee {
    let name: String
    let address: String
    let startDate: NSDate
    let type: EmployeeType

    var department: String?
    var reportsTo: String?

    init(fullName: String, employeeAddress: String, employeeStartDate: NSDate, employeeType: EmployeeType) {
        self.name = fullName
        self.address = employeeAddress
        self.startDate = employeeStartDate
        self.type = employeeType
    }
}

func payEmployee(employee: Payable) {
    let paycheck = employee.pay()
}

class HourlyEmployee: Employee,Payable {
    var hourlyWage: Double = 15.00
    var hoursWorked: Double = 0
    let availableVacation = 0

    func pay() -> (basePay: Double, benefits: Double, deductions: Double, vacation: Int) {
        return (hourlyWage * hoursWorked, 0, 0, availableVacation)
    }
}

let hourlyEmployee = HourlyEmployee(fullName: "John", employeeAddress: "none", employeeStartDate: NSDate(), employeeType: .NotManager)

payEmployee(HourlyEmployee)

Answer 1 · 2016-08-26T15:53:45Z

August 26, 2016 3:53pm

Hi John,

There is a typo in your last line of code it should read:

payEmployee(hourlyEmployee)

The difference being that in your original code you wrote "HourlyEmployee". Instead, you want to pass the hourlyEmployee constant (with a lowercase h) to the payEmployee func.

Hope that helps.

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Argument type '(HourlyEmployee).Type' does not conform to expected type 'Payable'

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