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iOS

Egor Bedunkevich
Egor Bedunkevich
643 Points
Posted by Egor Bedunkevich
Egor Bedunkevich
643 Points

Creating Arrays

I did some code and I do understand what we have learned about arrays, but I came across something that I had to ask. Let us say that I am creating an array outside any other methods(not sure about what they are called. Can some one explain?):

var notUsableArray = ["Hello", "World", "Swift", "Programming"]

override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad()

}

I have created my array. I know that I can add more items into it, but why can´t I do this?

var notUsableArray = ["Hello", "World", "Swift", "Programming"]

notUsableArray += ["Hello", "Stuff", "Code"]

override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad()

}

I can do in viewDidLoad and more, but why can´t I do it there? The error that I get is : Expected decleration

Please explain this to me in detail :)