How do I return a tuple with elements named greeting and language

Question

please help

tuples.swift

func greeting(#person: String) -> String {
    let language = "English"
    let greeting = "Hello \(person)"
var tuple = ("greeting", "\(language)")
    return tuple
}

Answer 1 · 2015-06-03T20:29:01Z

June 3, 2015 8:29pm

Hi Thomas,

We need to change two things here:

The function "signature", where you show the parameters and return type
What you're actually returning

There's no need to store the tuple in a variable, though that's certainly one way to do it. Your code is close - you haven't changed the signature, but you are returning a tuple. The tuple isn't quite right though. The challenge is asking for a named tuple.

func greeting(person: String) -> (greeting: String, language: String) {  // changed return type
    let language = "English"
    let greeting = "Hello \(person)"

    return (greeting: greeting, language: language)   // changed return
}

Note in the tuple I returned, the thing before the colon is the name of that element, which matches the return signature of (greeting: String, language: String). This is in the format ([name]: [type], [name]: [type]).

It's a bit confusing, but hopefully this helps. Let us know if you have more questions!

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