Error on calling print( ) in Challenge 1... says println( ) shouldn't be called outside of func... yet is not outside!

Question

Challenge 1 of 2 after the first video on Functions & Optionals is to:

Declare a function named greeting and within that function you will have a println statement that outputs “Hello".

Here is my code:

func greeting( ) {

println("Hello")

}

greeting( )

I get the response: “Bummer! You shouldn't call println directly. It needs to be in the body of the function.”

Yet the exact code in Xcode yields the proper results with no errors!

I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong! How is println( ) not being called within the function?

Please help!

Thanks,

Kevin

Answer 1 · 2014-09-30T19:36:44Z

September 30, 2014 7:36pm

func greeting() {
      println("Hello")
}

Answer 2 · 2014-09-30T20:03:22Z

September 30, 2014 8:03pm

Thanks Kyle,

I realized that the error stemmed from the fact that I was going a step beyond what

the Quiz had requested... it simply stated:

"Declare a function named greeting and within that function you will have a println statement that outputs “Hello"."

I took it a step further by calling the function, which it had not requested.

I'm paying closer attention to what the Quiz is actually requesting!

Thanks,

Kevin

Answer 3 · 2015-05-08T16:44:53Z

May 8, 2015 4:44pm

Made the same mistake and included greeting ( ) outside the curly bracket.

I guess, Greeting wasn't needed to be executed in this challenge because there was nothing to be executed other than the passing a parameter Hello.

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