SOLVED: New with Swift: a question about Structs

@Kitty2018

Mar '24

I am totally new with Swift...

now I am with the structs... with computed properties...

struct Code {

var language: String 

var containsErrors = false

var report: String {

    if containsErrors {

        return "This \(language) code has bugs!"

    } else {

        return "This looks good to me."

    }
}
}

I can't understand why I have to write "return" in this code... why for example not using "print" instead if I want it to be printed?

if i try with

if containsErrors { print (...) }

it says it must return something... I don't understand why...

the computed property is:

var report: String {...}

where does it say it must return a String ??? the { } in a computed property always mean return ????

doesn't is just say that it must be a string? it doesn't matter if it is printed, or returned,...????

Sorry if it is an obvious question... just starting with all of this...

To return something in a function you must write -> How do I know that it must return something in a computed property ?

Sorry if my english is not very good, because it is not my first language...

Anyway, I will finish my 100 days of switfUi courseeeee!!!!

@Hatsushira HWS+

Mar '24

A computed property has a type (String in your case) and always has to return a value of this type. The : String in the declaration means exactly that.

When you just want to print to console you have to use a function instead of a computed property. A function doesn't have to return a value.

func report() {
    if containsErrors {
        print("This \(language) code has bugs!")
    } else {
        print( "This looks good to me.")
    }
}

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