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iOS

Why wont this code compile?

struct Book {
    let title: String
    let author: String
    let price: String?
    let pubDate: String?

    init?(Dict: [ String : String ]) {
        guard let bookTitle = Dict["title"], let bookAuthor = Dict["author"] else {
            return nil
        }
        title = bookTitle
        author = bookAuthor
        price = Dict["price"]
        pubDate = Dict["pubDate"]
    }
}

2 Answers

Amit Bijlani
STAFF
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher

The problem is that you have capitalized the parameter Dict it should be dict. All variable names should start with a lowercase letter. Hope that helps!

That helped emensilly!! The code challenge now compiles! Thank you thank you thank you!!!