hi i am investigating kotlin and i stumbled upon s...

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[mcescher]

hi i am investigating kotlin and i stumbled upon something i couldnt immediately answer myself... hashMapOf() returns an instance of HashMap, which is apparently a typealias for java.util.HashMap (according to kotlin.collections.TypeAliases) ... however, it can also be assigned to a variable of type MutableMap, but i could not find the the place where this relationship (MutableMap <--> HashMap) is established