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iOS Generics in Swift Generic Types Creating a Generic Type

Aananya Vyas
Aananya Vyas
20,157 Points
Posted by Aananya Vyas
Aananya Vyas
20,157 Points

it shows this in the preview what am i doing wrong??

swift_lint.swift:8:27: error: expected '{' to start getter definition var count : Int {get} ^ my code:

struct Queue<Element> {

    var array: [Element] = []


    var isEmpty: Bool {
        if array.count == 0 {
            return true
        } else {
            return false
        }
    }

    }
generics.swift 
struct Queue<Element> {

    var array: [Element] = []
     var count : Int  {get}


    var isEmpty: Bool {
        if array.count == 0 {
            return true
        } else {
            return false
        }
    }

    }

1 Answer

miikis
miikis
44,957 Points

Hi Aananya,

It looks like you copy-and-pasted a protocol declaration inside of your struct. Remove the {get} after your count declaration and you should be fine :)

Aananya Vyas
Aananya Vyas
20,157 Points
Aananya Vyas
Aananya Vyas
20,157 Points 
struct Queue<Element> {

    var array: [Element] = []
     var count : Int  


    var isEmpty: Bool {
        if array.count == 0 {
            return true
        } else {
            return false
        }
    }

    }

it works in xcode.. not here..have tried it before .

miikis
miikis
44,957 Points

The Challenge is asking you to make count a computed-property... like you did for isEmpty. Let me know if that helps. Also, for isEmpty, you don't have to manually check the array's count— you can just return array.isEmpty.