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Justin Lim
1,391 PointsCan I create a function called "intro" for example and include my name and age? Can it accept both -> String and -> Int?
func intro(firstName: String, lastName: String, age: Int) -> String -> Int { return ("My name is (firstName) (lastName), and I'm (age) years old") }
func greeting(person: String) {
println("Hello \(person)")
}
1 Answer
Alvin Abia
Courses Plus Student 23,034 PointsYou definitely can Justin! It can look something like this:
func intro(firstName:String, lastName:String, age:Int) -> String {
return "My name is \(firstName) \(lastName), and I'm \(age) years old"
}
A point to note in regards to your code is that anything within the parenthesis following the method name is the parameters the method will accept, and anything after the -> is the return type. I noticed that you wrote "-> String -> Int".
If you wanted to return multiple types in Swift, its pretty easy to do so. The way to do so is to return a tuple which could encapsulate both a String and an Int within it. Treehouse has a really good video on this topic, hope this helps!
Justin Lim
1,391 PointsJustin Lim
1,391 PointsSweet thanks for the help!