is there a discussion anywhere about using name-ma...

# language-proposals

[groostav]

is there a discussion anywhere about using name-mangling as a tool in the kotlin compiler? Does the compiler-community at large have any thoughts on the subject? Is it generally frowned upon?

I want to write:

Type<Double>.toList(): List<Double> = TODO()
Type<Int>.toList(): List<Int> = TODO()

but I cant because they both have the same JVM signature public static List<Int> toList(Type $reciever)

but since they are statically dispatched, they're not on a vtable, so why not butcher their names a little? generate two functions List<Int> toList$Double(Type $reciever) and List<Int> toList$Int(Type $reciever)

Is it just to maintain a nice presentation under the reflection API?