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iOS Swift Functions and Optionals Functions Function Return Types

Posted by Clare Bagley
Clare Bagley
1,695 Points

in Challenge task 2 of 3 of Swift Functions and Optionals - error message given for correct(working) name passing

Challenge task 2 of 3 in Swift Functions and Optionals. Receive message"Bummer, your greeting printed "Hello Tom" when called with "XYZZY" as the parameter. It should have printed "Hello XYZZY". Yet my code (copied & pasted) works within xcode playground.

Jeremy Hayden
Jeremy Hayden
1,740 Points
Jeremy Hayden
Jeremy Hayden
1,740 Points

I may be doing something wrong, but I don't see your code.

4 Answers

ankushdharkar
ankushdharkar
7,530 Points
ankushdharkar
ankushdharkar
7,530 Points

Put proper spaces. Sometimes the Treehouse editor just wants spaces properly put and Xcode is fine without it.

Timothy Clark
Timothy Clark
2,383 Points
Timothy Clark
Timothy Clark
2,383 Points

For some reason the Treehouse editor wants XYZZY instead of Tom.

gökhan sayılgan
gökhan sayılgan
2,285 Points
gökhan sayılgan
gökhan sayılgan
2,285 Points

define your name variable at the out of function , we can call variables in our function that we define before