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C# C# Objects Methods Methods

Posted by Jamie Ray
Jamie Ray
Courses Plus Student 439 Points

How to phrase this distanceToFly method

Unsure what the compiler is looking for as far as returning a value. Thanks for any assistance.

Frog.cs 
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Frog
    {
        public readonly int TongueLength;

        public Frog(int tongueLength)
        {
            TongueLength = tongueLength;
        }

        public bool EatFly(int distanceToFly)
        {  

           return  canReach;
        }
    }
}
Robert Angi-Lazar
Robert Angi-Lazar
3,738 Points
Robert Angi-Lazar
Robert Angi-Lazar
3,738 Points

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges { class Frog { public readonly int TongueLength;

    public Frog(int tongueLength)
    {
        TongueLength = tongueLength;
    }

    public bool EatFly(int distanceToFly)
    {  

      bool canReach = TongueLength > distanceToFly;

     return canReach;

    }
}

}

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

It should return a Boolean. In other words true or false. It's worth noting that comparisons like 5 > 2 or 8 != 2 actually return Boolean values that reflect the result of the comparison. So you can return a Boolean by returning the result of a comparison.

So you should write some comparison that will be true if the frog's tongue can reach the fly and false otherwise. And then return that comparison.