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iOS Swift Enums and Structs Structs and their Methods Struct Methods

Posted by Marco Leo
Marco Leo
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Thanks

struct.swift 
struct Expense {
    var description: String
    var amount: Double = 0.0

    init (description: String) {
        self.description = description
    }

    func calculateTaxes("percentage") -> Double {
    }

    // add the calculateTaxes method here
    // it should accept only one parameter named 'percentage' of type Double

}

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miguelcastro2
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miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 Points
miguelcastro2
miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 Points

"it should accept only one parameter named 'percentage' of type Double"

    func calculateTaxes(percentage: Double) {
    }

What you did in your code was pass a String called "percentage" to your program. What was required was a variable named percentage, indicated by the "percentage" value. Next, we need to assign percentage a type of Double and remember in Swift we use ":" followed by the variable type:

let percentage: Double