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Tyler Dotson
Courses Plus Student 1,740 Pointshonestly have no clue how to do this.
how do I do this.
struct Person {
let firstName: String
let lastName: String
func fullName() -> String {
return firstName + " " + lastName
}
}
let aPerson = fullname()
2 Answers
Grant Meagher
11,163 PointsThe issue you're having is that you're trying to access the Person struct's fullName() method without first creating an instance of the struct. Once you do that, you would then assign the instance's method call of fullName() to a constant called myFullName.
struct Person {
let firstName: String
let lastName: String
func fullName() -> String {
return "\(firstName) \(lastName)"
}
}
let aPerson = Person(firstName: "", lastName: "")
let myFullName = aPerson.fullName()
james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Pointsthe first part of task 2 is to create an instance of Person and assign it to aPerson. so you have the let aPerson = ..., but you're not ready to call the fullName function yet. to instantiate a Person, you call it by its class or struct name and give it the arguments its constructor is looking for, here that is firstname and lastname. the syntax is Person(firstname = "name", lastname = "name"). when that line executes it will create a Person object with the given names, and it will be stored in your variable. NOW you can call your instance methods on it. so the second part, assign to the constant myFullName your Person with the fullname method called on it using the dot notation.