Hi there,

Chugging along and have come to a screeching hault while I learn closures.

The team sorting by captain has given me a headache.

In this example:

let team = ["Gloria", "Suzzane", "Piper", "TIffany", "Tasha"]
let sortedTeam = team.sorted()
print (sortedTeam)

func captainFirstSorted(name1: String, name2: String) -> Bool {
    if name1 == "Suzzane"{
        return true
    } else if name2 == "Suzzane" {
        return false
    }

    return name1 < name2
}

let captainFirstTeam = team.sorted(by: captainFirstSorted)
print(captainFirstTeam)

How does the captainfirstSorted function know that name1 and name2 are first and second values of the array team?

I assume it just plucks out the first and second values of the array but I don't understand how this works as I would expect comparing each name to a position in the array (team[x]) as shown below:

func captainFirstSorted() -> Bool {
    if team[0] == "Suzzane"{
        return true
    } else if team[1] == "Suzzane" {
        return false
    }

    return team[0] < team[1]
}

Thank you for any help you can provide!! :)

Thank you! Those posts did the trick.

Appreciate the encouragement.

-e