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iOS Swift Functions and Optionals Parameters and Tuples Tuples

Jonathan Seymour
Jonathan Seymour
3,119 Points
Posted by Jonathan Seymour
Jonathan Seymour
3,119 Points

i don't understand why this challenge won't accept my code to return a tuple

In this question i was asked to modify the given greeting(person: String) function to return a tuple instead of a String, so i changed the return type to (String, String) and changed the value being returned from the single string greeting, to the required tuple of strings (greeting, language).

I can't see what i'm doing wrong here and in Xcode my code compiles the way i was expecting it to, but the challenge will not accept my code saying that my function needs to return the given strings greeting and language; as far as i can see my function is already doing that.

Any help would be really appreciated.

tuples.swift 
func greeting(person: String) -> (String, String) {
    let language = "English"
    let greeting = "Hello \(person)"

    return (greeting, language)
}

1 Answer

Iman Mk
Iman Mk
6,223 Points
Iman Mk
Iman Mk
6,223 Points

Hi Jonathan,

Did you try labeling your return types? Like this:

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

    return (greeting, language)
}

It should work now! Let me know if you have any questions.