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Jake N
612 Pointsconfused
im not sure where to start with this one
func greeting(person) {
println("Hello")
}
2 Answers

Chris Shaw
26,662 PointsHi Jake,
Let's break this down into each task.
Task 1
Modify the function named
greeting
to accept a parameter. Name the parameterperson
which is of typeString
.
So what this is saying is we need to declare a parameter called person
and assign it the type String
which we can do by putting a colon between our parameter name and the type.
func greeting(person: String) {
println("Hello")
}
Task 2
Modify the
println
statement within thegreeting
function to use the variableperson
. For example, if you pass a person named "Tom" to the function then it should display: Hello Tom. (Hint: you must use string interpolation).
If you remember from the introduction to Swift course we saw interpolation in action which is the use of \()
inside a string literal, all we need to do is pass person
into it.
func greeting(person: String) {
println("Hello \(person)")
}
Task 3
Call the function greeting and pass it the string "Tom".
Finally we just need to call our greeting
function and supply it with the string Tom as the parameter.
func greeting(person: String) {
println("Hello \(person)")
}
greeting("Tom")

Jake N
612 Pointsah okay thanks