I cant figure out how to solve this

Question

Guided step solution please

structs.swift

struct Tag {
    let name: String
}

struct Post {
    var title: String
    var author: String
    var tag: Tag

    func description(){
      return Post(title: "iOS Development", author: "Apple", tag: Tag(name: "Swift"))
    }
}
let firstPost = description()

let postDescription = firstPost

Answer 1 · 2016-04-16T00:15:31Z

April 16, 2016 12:15am

For the first task, you've got part of it correct. You've set up your struct correctly. However, the next part of that challenge wants you to create an instance of Post and assign it to the constant firstPost. In the first challenge, you shouldn't have created the description() method yet.

What you want to do is the following:

let firstPost = Post(title: "Sample Title", author: "Sample Author", tag: Tag(name: "Sample Tag"))

In the second task, you are asked to create the description() method. This method should contain no parameters but it should return a String. So your function definition would look like this:

func description() -> String

Inside the method, you are asked to return a String which, in the case of the inputs I used above, would look like this:

Sample Title by Sample Author. Filed under Sample Tag

So your description() method, in full, would look like this:

func description() -> String {
    return "\(title) by \(author). Filed under \(tag.name)"
}

Here, you are using string interpolation to create the string with the struct's members.

Last, you are asked to assign the return of description() to the constant postDescription. To do that, you simply do:

let postDescription = firstPost.description()

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I cant figure out how to solve this

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