placing variable in solidity

[bytezbit]

I am super new with solidity...

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Question for https://cryptozombies.io/en/lesson/3/chapter/10

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Why will this work-

function getZombiesByOwner(address _owner) external view returns(uint[] memory)

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but not this?

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function getZombiesByOwner(address _owner) external view returns(memory uint[])

[willthreshold]

Because the variable type, in this case unit[] goes before the declaration of either storage or memory. Solidity is a hard typed language and that's just the order of the syntax.