Hello, I use `expect/actual` as follows: ```//comm...

# multiplatform

[Ayla]

Hello, I use expect/actual as follows:

//common
expect class PlatformElement

//android
//works
actual typealias PlatformElement = View 

//js
//error:The following declaration is incompatible because modality is different
actual typealias PlatformElement = HTMLElement

I found HTMLElement is abstract , so it fails. But I won't use the constrcutor, I just want to declare the type, so what should I do ?

[jw]

as long as you don't expose a constructor in common you can suppress the error and it'll be fine.

another option is to use a value class on JS to "wrap" HTMLElement

[Ayla]

It works, thank you!

[Luv Kumar]

Hi @jw @Ayla i am also facing a similar issue in

// commonMain
expect class PlatformStream

// iosMain
actual typealias PlatformStream = NSInputStream

// androidMain
actual typealias PlatformStream = InputStream

could you guys share how can i suppress it ? i tried something like

@Suppress("ACTUAL_WITHOUT_EXPECT")
actual typealias PlatformReadStream = InputStream

doing above idea removes the compilation warning but doing ./gradlew build -x check still give following error `Expect declaration PlatformReadStream is incompatible with actual PlatformReadStream because modality is different. Expect declaration modality is 'final'. Actual declaration modality is 'abstract'`