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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift Getting Started with iOS Development Swift Recap Part 1

Clayton Carroll
Clayton Carroll
2,075 Points
Posted by Clayton Carroll
Clayton Carroll
2,075 Points

The system says I need to use String Interpolation to solve this challenge. Can someone explain how this is wrong?

This works fine in playgrounds, I am unclear as to why this will not work in the code challenge. In preview, I receive no error methods. I checked my syntax vs. correct answers and do not see a difference. I tried defining a constant named myTag outside of the firstPost constant to give a String value to tag in the instance of Post but that did not work.

structs.swift 
struct Tag {
    let name: String
}

struct Post {
    let title: String
    let author: String
    let tag: Tag

    func description () -> String {
    return "\(title) by \(author).  Filed under \(tag.name)"
}
}

let firstPost = Post(title: "iOS Development", author: "Apple", tag: Tag(name: "Swift"))

let postDescription = firstPost.description()

1 Answer

Luc Bernardin
Luc Bernardin
3,726 Points
Luc Bernardin
Luc Bernardin
3,726 Points

The () have to be directly adjacent to description.

Clayton Carroll
Clayton Carroll
2,075 Points
Clayton Carroll
Clayton Carroll
2,075 Points

Haha I would make that mistake. Thank you Luc.