What am I missing in this function?

Question

I am basically trying to make it say "Hello Tom" whenever I call the function

parameters.swift

func greeting(person: String) {
    println("Hello \(person)")
}

greeting(Tom)

Answer 1 · 2015-06-28T14:03:14Z

June 28, 2015 2:03pm

When you are calling the function, you want to pass it a string so it needs quotes around it:

greeting(Tom) //Here Tom is a variable and your code will fail.

greeting("Tom") // This will work as you are passing it a string

Answer 2 · 2015-06-28T13:54:57Z

June 28, 2015 1:54pm

Quote marks around the parameter name when you call it?

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