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iOS

Posted by noahforbes
noahforbes
1,869 Points

Figuring out my func

I can't figure out why this won't work. I saw that someone asked a similar question, but the answer they got didn't quite make sense to me.

"Try instead of tag accessing the name property using tag.name"

Am I missing fundamentals heres or something silly.

struct Tag {
    let name: String
}

struct Post {
    var title: String
    var author: String
    var tag: Tag
    func description() -> String {
        return("\(title) by \(author). Filed under \(tag)")

    }
}
let firstPost = Post(title: "ios", author: "Apple", tag: Tag(name: "whatevs"))
let postDescription = firstPost.description()

1 Answer

Heath R.
Heath R.
Courses Plus Student 1,211 Points

struct Tag { let name: String }

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

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

}

let firstPost = Post(title: "Confidential", author: "Classified", tag: Tag(name: "MY52F7G98NB"))

let postDescription = firstPost.description()

tag is a struct and so you have to access its property by creating an instance of it in the description method, and not just write tag. This changes the firstPost as well, with the parentheses, and putting the tag name inside.

hope this helps!

noahforbes
noahforbes
1,869 Points

Yes. Thanks a bunch.