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iOS Closures in Swift 2 First Class Functions Higher Order Functions

Posted by khoipro
khoipro
10,821 Points

I've got an issue with Closures in Swift 2's challenge

1 - Challenge:

Let's use the two functions we created to on a String literal. On the string Swift, call the modify function and use the firstLetter function as an argument. Assign the result to a constant named value.

2 - My code: 

extension String {
    func modify(a: String -> String) -> String {
        return "\(a)"
    }
}

func firstLetter(b: String) -> String {
    return "\(b[b.startIndex])"
}

let value = "Swift".modify(firstLetter)

3 - Issue: Make sure you are calling modify on the String 'Swift' and assigning the result to a constant named value

Kerry Toonen
Kerry Toonen
15,830 Points
Kerry Toonen
Kerry Toonen
15,830 Points

I think the problem is that in the first challenge you were supposed to call the function on self.

I was actually having trouble passing part two and the error was saying "Make sure you're declaring a function named firstName, that accepts a String and returns a String" which was weird so I tried your code to get it to pass. Anyways, mine passed with this:

extension String {

func modify(function: String -> String) -> String {

return function(self)
}
}

func firstLetter(b: String) -> String {
return "\(b[b.startIndex])"

}

let value = "Swift".modify(firstLetter)

Harold Davis
Harold Davis
Courses Plus Student 14,604 Points

Thanks Kerry that helped out a lot!