I created a method with a default value for its ar...

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[dasralph]

I created a method with a default value for its argument:

fun foo(bar: String = "foobar") {
        Timber.i("bar: %s", bar)
    }

Why I can’t use the default value from Java?

Kotlin generates this method:

public final void foo(@NotNull String bar)
    {
        Intrinsics.checkParameterIsNotNull(bar, "bar");Timber.i("bar: %s", new Object[] {bar });
    }

but why not this:

public final void foo(){
        foo("foobar");
    }
    
    public final void foo(@NotNull String bar)
    {
        Intrinsics.checkParameterIsNotNull(bar, "bar");Timber.i("bar: %s", new Object[] {bar });
    }