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iOS Swift Closures Functions as First Class Citizens Higher Order Functions

Foto Graft
PLUS
Foto Graft
Courses Plus Student 2,601 Points

Closure

I am stucked at part 1b. Not sure why it doesn't accept my answer even though I assigned it to a constant and it runs on Xcode.

higherOrderFunctions.swift
/** 
  QUESTION 1a
  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.

  QUESTION 1b
  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.
*/

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

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

let difference = mathOperation(differenceBetweenNumbers, 1, 2)

1 Answer

Foto,

You got this!

//Remove the name "differenceBetweenNumbers" and the return type does not need the parentheses
func mathOperation(f: (Int, Int) -> Int, a: Int, b: Int) -> Int {
  return f(a,b)
}

let difference = mathOperation(differenceBetweenNumbers, 20, 11)
Rashad Abdul-Salaam
Rashad Abdul-Salaam
Courses Plus Student 13,392 Points

Definitely the right answer...worked on this for a couple days to no avail. Thanks a TON!!!