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Anthony Woodman
1,460 PointsCan't get passed
I am having a problem with this task I have added the following to the println statement but it's not accepting it
func greeting(person: String) { println("Hello (greeting(Tom))") }
help?!
func greeting(person: String) {
println("Hello \(greeting(Tom))")
}
2 Answers
Shawn Flanigan
Courses Plus Student 15,815 PointsAnthony, I'm guessing you're stuck on challenge task 2, right? It looks like you're trying to call the function (greeting) from within the function that you're defining, which won't work. You can't define something and use that thing within the definition. It would be like saying "To Jabberwock the apple, start by jabberwocking it."
Here, they're just asking you to tell the function what to do with the parameter we're passing it (person). In this case, we want to add it to our "Hello" message. To do this in Swift, you'll simply use the + symbol, followed by your variable. Should look something like this:
func greeting(person: String) {
println("Hello " + person)
}
Hope this makes sense!
Anthony Woodman
1,460 Pointsthanks for that...school boy error!