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Sherman Edwards
937 PointsWhats wrong
I ran the code in my own linux box. It worked.
def three(a)
a=3
return a
end
def five(b)
b=5
return b
end
1 Answer
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 PointsHi Sherman,
You have a couple of issues here.
First, the instructions need to be followed exactly as they are stated. Here the instructions does not say anything about a parameter for the method, so the parenthesis should be empty ==> def method_name() Note: you could eliminate the parenthesis all together, but I like them there, so the "no parameters" is clear to anyone reading the code.
Second, the instructions do not say to assign a value to any variable, so the method should just return the hard-coded value it asks for. This can be done with the return method, or in Ruby, the last line of a method will automatically be returned, so you don't even need the return for this method.
The correct method would look like this:
def three() # No parameters are asked for, so the () should be empty
3 # This is the last line of the method, so the value will be an implicit return
end
Keep Coding! :)
