What do you like to do here? ```private val _mySta...

# codingconventions

[Chris Fillmore]

What do you like to do here?

private val _myState = MutableStateFlow()
val myState = _myState.asStateFlow()

I have this pattern in many places (using _ prefix for the private member). Anybody have anything they like better?

[mkrussel]

That is the recommended way from the Kotlin style guide.

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coding-conventions.html#names-for-backing-properties

[Chris Fillmore]

Ah! Thank you. Perhaps I even read this and forgot about it

[alex.krupa]

See also this YouTrack issue, as it may affect this convention in the future

[Marcin Wisniowski]

@elizarov briefly talked about this one the KotlinConf keynote:

https://youtu.be/c4f4SCEYA5Q?t=1171▾

[Chris Fillmore]

Thank you all for this info, good to know

[Tgo1014]

@Marcin Wisniowski is there any hope this will come to life? It's from 2017 and I'm waiting this for so long lol

[Marcin Wisniowski]

In the video I linked Roman says it’s basically ready and only waiting for the K2 release first.

[Jan]

K2 roadmap https://kotlinlang.org/docs/roadmap.html