Property Observer Code Challenge

Question

I keep getting the error "error: expression pattern of type 'Bool' cannot match values of type 'Double' " when using the code below. I saw people solve this challenge using if/else statements but I thought a switch statement would be a way to make my code easier to read. How can I solve this code challenge while still using a switch statement?

observer.swift

class TemperatureController: UIViewController {

    var temperature: Double {
        didSet {
            switch temperature { 
              case temperature > 80.0: view.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()
              case temperature < 40.0: view.backgroundColor = UIColor.blueColor()
              default: view.backgroundColor = UIColor.greenColor()
            }
          }
        }


    init(temperature: Double) {
        self.temperature = temperature
        super.init()
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        view.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
    }
}

Answer 1 · 2016-09-05T22:13:21Z

September 5, 2016 10:13pm

switch is just like an advanced set of if statements. Deconstruct the switch statement into an if statement to see the problem. Even just recreating the first case should be enough. Here's how it'd break down.

if temperature = temperature > 80.0 {
}

since temperature is a Double and temperature > 80.0 return a Bool the comparison blows up since you can't compare Bool and Double, apples and oranges.

easy fix is to say…

switch true {
case temperature > 80.0
}

Now the if statement would be …

if true = temperature > 80.0 {
}

Comparing a Bool to a Bool. Setting the initial switch value to true is not something I see a lot of tutorials doing, but I learned it from the Ruby community where it's common to set a value in the switch statement and compare against case values that are ranges, booleans, etc. I've done it in PHP too, and wouldn't be surprised if most languages out there allow this.

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