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iOS Swift Functions and Optionals Parameters and Tuples Named Parameters

Posted by Darin Wilson
Darin Wilson
996 Points

iOS Functions named parameters adding additional string

What am I doing wrong here? its asking me to add another string so instead of "Tom" it says "Jerry"

named_parameters.swift 
func greeting(#person: String) {
    println("Hello \(person)")
}
greeting("Jerry")

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Darin,

Whenever we're using named parameters we need to declare them in our function declaration otherwise it will throw an error saying we're missing the parameter for x, see the below.

greeting(person: "Jerry")

Hope that helps.