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iOS Swift Functions and Optionals Optionals Review: Functions

Leonardo Cavalcanti
Leonardo Cavalcanti
5,308 Points
Posted by Leonardo Cavalcanti
Leonardo Cavalcanti
5,308 Points

Optionals swift basics return bool

Hello everyone, I don`t exactly know why this isn't working.

divisible.swift 
func isDivisible(#dividend: Int, #divisor: Int) -> Bool {
    if dividend % divisor == 0 {
        return true
    } else {
        return false
    }
}
func isNotDivisible(#dividend: Int, #divisor: Int) ->Bool? {
    if dividend%divisor != 0 {
    return true
    }
    else {
    return nil
    }
}

1 Answer

Farhad Mohammad Afzali
Farhad Mohammad Afzali
5,007 Points

Change return type to Bool only ( not Bool?). And change nil to false in return statement :

func isNotDivisible(#dividend: Int, #divisor: Int) ->Bool { if dividend%divisor != 0 { return true } else { return false } }

Leonardo Cavalcanti
Leonardo Cavalcanti
5,308 Points
Leonardo Cavalcanti
Leonardo Cavalcanti
5,308 Points

yep this worked, I just don't see the point of this challenge as you don't even use optionals for it... but thank you a lot.

Emil Rais
Emil Rais
26,873 Points
Emil Rais
Emil Rais
26,873 Points

If nothing else, Leonardo, take it as a lesson. There's a right time to use optionals and there's a right time to stay far away. Optionals provide great safety, but when they are added in unnecessary situations, they introduce a non-trivial source of danger and clutter to your code.