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iOS Swift Enums and Structs Structs and their Methods Struct Methods

Dawn Tan
Dawn Tan
1,366 Points
Posted by Dawn Tan
Dawn Tan
1,366 Points

The Preview panel didn't return any errors. I'm not sure where I went wrong with my answer

Please enlighten me!

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

    init (Description: String, Amount: Double) {
        self.description = Description
        self.amount = Amount
    }

    func calculateTaxes (percentage: Double )-> Double? {
      return (self.amount * (percentage/100))
    }

}
var item = Expense(Description: "Whatever", Amount: 100)
//item.amount = 100.0

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Dawn,

There's a couple of points here:

  • The question isn't expecting you to amend the initializer
  • The calculateTaxes function should return a Double not an optional

Your code will work fine in the preview panel as that shows compiler errors. What it doesn't show is the output of the other tests that check the challenge has been answered as expected. That makes the challenges especially tricky as they are expecting the question to be answered in a particular way, not necessarily just by writing 'correct' code.

So, the answer tests will be looking for the amount member variable to be assigned on a separate line, for example.

The input code that completes the challenge, entered question by question looks like:

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

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

    // add the calculateTaxes method here
    // it should accept only one parameter named 'percentage' of type Double
    func calculateTaxes(percentage: Double) -> Double{
      return (self.amount * (percentage / 100))
    }
}

var item = Expense(description: "Hotel")
item.amount = 100
var taxes = item.calculateTaxes(7.5)

At this stage, the questions are deliberately quite explicit in how to answer the question - alternative routes are possible but they may cause the challenge to fail as the answer input may not match the precise order expected.

I hope that helps,

Steve.