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iOS Swift Closures Functions as First Class Citizens Higher Order Functions

Robert Friedland
Robert Friedland
5,357 Points

Challenge Task 2 of 2 on Swift Closures (On Step 4); Errors?

Challenge Task 2 of 2 on Swift Closures (On Step 4)

Instructions: Using the differenceBetweenNumbers function as an input to mathOperation, compute the difference between any two integers and assign the result to a constant named difference.

Code: func differenceBetweenNumbers(a: Int, b:Int) -> (Int) { return a - b }

// Enter your code below func mathOperation(mathOperationFunc: (Int, Int) -> Int, a: Int, b: Int ) -> (Int) { return mathOperationFunc(a,b) }

let difference = mathOperation(differenceBetweenNumbers, 10, 5)

Error: Make sure you are computing the difference between two integers using the functions created and assigning the result to a constant named difference.

Note: I compiled this code using Xcode 6.4 with success. I’m not sure why I’m receiving an error on the online code checker.

higherOrderFunctions.swift
/** 
  For this code challenge, let’s define a math operation as a function that 
  carries out some work on two integers and returns an integer as well. An 
  example is the function below, `differenceBetweenNumbers`, which takes two 
  integers and calculates the difference between the numbers. After calculating, 
  it returns the difference.
*/

func differenceBetweenNumbers(a: Int, b:Int) -> (Int) {
  return a - b
}

// Enter your code below
func mathOperation(mathOperationFunc: (Int,Int) -> Int, a: Int, b: Int ) -> (Int)
{
    return mathOperationFunc(a,b)
}

let difference = mathOperation(differenceBetweenNumbers, 10, 5)

2 Answers

William Li
PLUS
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Hi, Robert, similar question has been answered on this previous post, please check it out, if you have more question, let me know.

'''Swift <p> func differenceBetweenNumbers(a: Int, b:Int) -> (Int) { return a - b }

func mathOperation(mathOperationfunc: (Int, Int) -> Int, a: Int, b: Int) -> (Int) { return mathOperationfunc(a, b); }

let difference = mathOperation(differenceBetweenNumbers, 5, 5) </p> '''