Code challenge issue, working in Xcode...

Question

Hi!

I don't get what I'm doing wrong in this code challenge. I get this to compile and get the correct result in Xcode.

I have a struct with title: String, author: String and tag: Tag as instructed.

I've created an initialized because I don't know how else to get the a string into the tag type...

I have a method that uses string interpolation in order to create the required sentence. However, I'm forced to take tag.name in order to access the string in the tag.

What's gone wrong?

structs.swift

struct Tag {
  let name: String
}

struct Post {
    let title: String
  let author: String
  let tag: Tag

  init(title: String, author: String, tag: String) {
        self.title = title
    self.author = author
      self.tag = Tag(name: tag)
  }

    func description() -> String {
    return "\(title) by \(author). Filed under \(tag.name)"
  }
}

let firstPost = Post(title: "HP6", author: "JKR", tag: "fantasy")

let postDescription = firstPost.description()

Answer 1 · 2018-05-23T23:44:28Z

May 23, 2018 11:44pm

Hi William,

Struct instances are first-class in Swift, so you can pass them directly into a method.

Structs also give you an initialiser with all the required properties for free.

For example, if you have the following struct:

struct MyStruct {
    let name: String
}

You can initialise a MyStruct instance by writing

MyStruct(name: "Example Struct")

Thus if you have another struct that takes this type as a parameter, you can pass exactly that in as an argument:

SomeOtherStruct(someProperty: "hello, world", myStructInstance: MyStruct(name: "Example Struct"))

You can pass a Tag instance into built-in Post initialiser the same way.

Hope that's clear

Cheers

Alex

William Larsten

William Larsten

Code challenge issue, working in Xcode...

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Alex Koumparos

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William Larsten

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