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author | Dave Gauer <dave@ratfactor.com> | 2021-02-07 11:06:51 -0500 |
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committer | Dave Gauer <dave@ratfactor.com> | 2021-02-07 11:06:51 -0500 |
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Consistent instructions and examples
I started off with "hints" that required the poor student to piece
together the information from incomplete bits. A complete example is
like a picture that is worth 1000 words and far clearer.
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diff --git a/19_functions2.zig b/19_functions2.zig index 68cc67b..4d195a7 100644 --- a/19_functions2.zig +++ b/19_functions2.zig @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ // -// Now let's use a function that takes a parameter. +// Now let's create a function that takes a parameter. Here's an +// example that takes two parameters. As you can see, parameters +// are declared just like an other types ("name": "type"): +// +// fn myFunction( number: u8, is_lucky: bool ) { +// ... +// } // const std = @import( "std" ); @@ -13,16 +19,13 @@ pub fn main() void { } // -// Oops! We seem to have forgotten something here. Function -// parameters look like this: -// -// fn myFunction( number: u8, is_lucky: bool ) { -// ... -// } -// -// As you can see, we declare the type of the parameter, just -// like we declare the types of variables, with a colon ":". +// Please give this function the correct input parameter(s). +// You'll need to figure out the parameter name and type that we're +// expecting. The output type has already been specified for you. // fn twoToThe(???) u32 { return std.math.pow(u32, 2, my_number); + // std.math.pow(type, a, b) takes a numeric type and two numbers + // of that type and returns "a to the power of b" as that same + // numeric type. } |