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iOS Build an Interactive Story App with Swift 2 Creating a Story Structure of a Page

Tony Teixeira
Tony Teixeira
14,823 Points
Posted by Tony Teixeira
Tony Teixeira
14,823 Points

ERROR: Expected member name or constructor call after type name

class Page {
    let story = Story // Expected member name or constructor call after type name
    typealias Choice = (title: String, page: Page)

    var firstChoice: Choice?
    var secondChoice: Choice?

    init(story: Story) {  // Cannot assign value of type 'Story' to type 'Story.Type'
        self.story = story
    }
}

Keep getting errors, is this a change in Swift or am I making an error?

Justin Janes
Justin Janes
5,904 Points
Justin Janes
Justin Janes
5,904 Points

I'm hitting this same problem two hours after you, I think it may be a gap between the video content and where Swift currently is.

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

What I bet you're meaning to do on line 2 of your example is declare a constant called story of type Story, but your code is written using the assignment operator, which is not correct. In other words, I bet you meant to use a colon (:) instead of an equals sign (=). Try changing the second line to this and see what happens:

let story: Story
Tony Teixeira
Tony Teixeira
14,823 Points
Tony Teixeira
Tony Teixeira
14,823 Points

Ahh absolutely what I was trying to do. I was wondering why it was not throwing an init error before I added the init method. Makes sense, my error... thanks!