regarding "I dont see how inline can help here": a...

# language-proposals

[groostav]

regarding "I dont see how inline can help here":
assuming that inline represents an AST transform applied in the front-end of the kotlin compiler, then I would expect the code

inline fun someMethod(arg: ImportantDomainThing) : Boolean {
  return arg.alpha > THRESHOLD || arg.x > 42.0
}

DBFacade.filter(lambda: CodeTree){
  this.where(generateWhereQuery(lambda))
}

then the query

dbFacade.filter { someMethod(it.importantDomainThing) }

would be re-written by a near-front-end component to be:

dbFacade.filter { it.importantDomainThing.run { it.alpha > THRESHOLD || it.x > 42.0 } }