Passing Values to Functions with Arguments - confusing syntax error

JavaScript
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Your code so far


// Example
function ourFunctionWithArgs(a, b) {
  console.log(a - b);
}
ourFunctionWithArgs(10, 5); // Outputs 5

// Only change code below this line.
functionWithArgs(x, y) {
  console.log(x+y);
}

functionWithArgs(2, 5);

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0.

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The console gives the following syntax error:

"SyntaxError: unknown: Unexpected token, expected ; (8:23)
6 |
7 | // Only change code below this line.

8 | functionWithArgs(x, y) {
| ^
9 | console.log(x+y);
10 | }
11 |

Can somebody help me see what I am doing wrong? To me, the syntax looks just like the one in the example code.

Thanks a bunch

Marie

2

Take a look at how the example function is declared - yours appears to be missing an element. :slight_smile:

3

slaps hands against forehead I see it now - thank you!

I missed the function keyword and so the console expected a one-line statement and asked for its closing semicolon.

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