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Joe Dayvie
11,956 PointsMy code in Xcode not working...
Hello,
Below is my code:
class Product {
let title: String
let price: Double = 0.0
init(title: String, price: Double) {
self.title = title
self.price = price
}
func discountedPrice(percentage: Double) -> Double {
return price - (price * percentage / 100)
}
}
let quadcopter = Product(title: "Quadcopter", price: 499.99)
quadcopter.discountedPrice(50)
Where I seem to have an issue is the self.price = price since it give me an error. I went through and it all appears to match and when I retype it, the error goes away but then its unusable.
Does anyone have any insight? Thank you!
2 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsHi, Joe Dayvie
In this line here
let price: Double = 0.0
the price property was given a default value of 0.0, I believe Swift won't allow you to reassign another value to a constant even in the init method.
Change the let to var then it should work fine.
Now, you may ask why Amit typed the exact same codes during the video and it worked without error; please keep in mind that Swift is a very very new language, it's constantly changing and evolving, as a matter of fact, it has gone through several major updates since the video was recorded. It's possible that Apple introduced some changes to the language that break the existing code, because the Swift you had in the latest Xcode is a much newer version than what Amit used during the course video. Hope this helps.
Joe Dayvie
11,956 PointsWilliam,
Completely agree - If they are going to do it well, make the necessary changes early on instead of dragging it out years ahead.
Joe Dayvie
11,956 PointsJoe Dayvie
11,956 PointsWilliam,
Perfect! I appreciate it very much.
I knew Swift is very new but I am realizing just how many changes have happened within a year. Its tough to keep up when someone is as new as I am.
I appreciate it again =)
Joe
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsWilliam Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsYep, in all honesty, I'm a bit surprised about how hard-working Apple has been on improving the Swift language in the past several months.
But I think it makes totally sense that they made bold changes & improvements to the language at this early stage; it'd be much harder to do so a couple years later when many high-profile Swift projects have been written, there's no way Apple can introduce a breaking change to the language without upsetting everyone.