HELP, covert greet function to arrow function- been stumped for a day

Thank you so much with this through response! I was trying to figure out how to pass an argument... I still think I don't get it completely lol.

Why does the argument string not matter as 'cool coders' = 'val'?

Also for string template literals, I thought the backtick was needed in the case of ${val} in "Hi, ${val}" which is why I was completely thrown off.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say "Why does the argument string not matter as 'cool coders' = 'val'?", but I'll try to answer as best I can, based on what I think you might be thinking, based on the code you wrote. I am assuming you understand variable assignment, as in:

const someVariable = 'some value'

In this code, the variable named someVariable is assigned the string "some value", so if you write

console.log(someVariable)

you would get some value output in the console. You can think of the parameters of a function the same way. If you have the following code:

function someFunction(paramA) {
  console.log(paramA);
}

someFunction('some value');

you would get some value output in the console. In essence, the value 'some value' is assigned to the variable named paramA in the function. In the same way, you can pass a variable to a function. So with this code:

function someFunction(paramA) {
  console.log(paramA);
}

let someVariable = 'some value';

someFunction(someVariable);

you would get some value output in the console. In the same way, a function can accept more than one parameter, and you can pass more than one value into a function, if the parameters and the values are separated with a comma, as in the following code:

function someFunction(paramA, paramB) {
  console.log(paramA + " " + paramB);
}

let someVariable = 'some';
let valVariable = 'value';

someFunction(someVariable, valVariable);

This would also give some value output in the console. This is what you are doing in your code, because the values you put in the parentheses after the function name are not surrounded with quotes. You are passing a variable named Hi and a variable named val (which are undefined). In your code, you are trying to assign a string to the variable coder, but that isn't necessary. For one thing, you never use the variable after the assignment. You are correct about the template literals needing the backticks (that's what makes it a template literal), and when a variable is entered in a template literal as ${someVariable}, it translates the variable into the string.

A thought just occurred to me as I'm typing this. Is it possible that you mistook the single quotes around cool coders as backticks? I could see where you might think that you needed to do something special with the string if you thought the backticks were causing the system to perform some function on the words, but when you put just words within backticks, the system treats the value as a string, in much the same way that it would if you had used quotes.

Does that help?

Jason Larson

Just shot over a quick email!

Thank you for the response but I don't understand passing the argument

I do have several email addresses, but to be perfectly honest with you, I rarely check them, unless I'm expecting something. Additionally, I would prefer not to post a legitimate email on a public forum, as that is just asking for tons of extra spam, and I already get enough of that as it is. Having said that, you can email me at catchingspam@yahoo.com and I'll check that sometime in the next day or so and reply to you directly with a better address. Just be aware of what I said about not checking my mail very often, so if it's a technical question or something that is time-sensitive, you're better off asking in these forums, searching google, or asking on stackoverflow.