Function to Add a Task

Part of the Introduction To Luau section of Coddy's Lua journey — lesson 46 of 73.

Challenge

Easy

Your editor already contains the Task type and the tasks array from the previous lesson.

Create a function named addTask that takes two parameters:

list of type {Task}
title of type string

The function should:

build a new Task whose id is #list + 1, whose title is the given title, and whose done flag is false
insert it into list with table.insert
return the new task (return type Task)

Then call addTask(tasks, "Review the code"), store the result in a variable named added, and print, each on its own line:

the number of tasks now in tasks
added.id
added.title
added.done

Try it yourself

-- The shape every task in the manager must follow
type Task = {
    id: number,
    title: string,
    done: boolean,
}

-- The task list: a typed array of Task shapes
local tasks: {Task} = {
    {id = 1, title = "Learn Luau types", done = false},
    {id = 2, title = "Build a task manager", done = false},
    {id = 3, title = "Write tests", done = true},
}

-- Inspect the first task
print(tasks[1].id)
print(tasks[1].title)
print(tasks[1].done)
print(#tasks)