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Daniel Crews
14,008 PointsStruct Instantiation Not Working in Challenge
This instantiation method doesn't seem to work in the challenge:
Struct.new("Name", :first, :last)
Am I missing something?
Struct.new("Name", :first, :last)
1 Answer
Nathan Williams
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 6,851 Pointsthis is actually a pretty tricky one, I tried the same thing at first, and it took me a few tries to understand what it was asking for here :). The key phrase in this case is "Create a Class...".
using
Struct.new("Name", :first, :last)
returns a Struct::Name:
irb(main):001:0> Struct.new("Name", :first, :last)
=> Struct::Name
so you'd end up creating instances of this with
Struct::Name.new("Nathan", "Williams")
but that's not a Name class, it's Struct::Name :/
The answer the challenge is looking for is more like
Name = Struct.new(:first, :last)
which returns an actual Name class, thereby satisfying the challenge requirements:
irb(main):002:0> Name = Struct.new(:first, :last)
=> Name
and lets you create instances via
Name.new("Nathan", "Williams")
which I think reads a little nicer, and is the recommended way to do it according to the documentation.