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Kotlin: Set/List elegant way to check if contains any value of another Set/List?
Is there an elegant / idiomatic way to check in Kotlin whether an element of one set is contained in another set?

Given:

val setA = setOf("A", "B", "C")
val setB = setOf("E", "C")


I can write expressions such as:

setA.intersect(setB).isNotEmpty()


or:

setA.any { it in setB }


But none of them is really a code being read fluently.
My fallback is to use a custom extension function, e.g.:

fun Set.containsAny(vararg other : T) =
this.intersect(other.toSet()).isNotEmpty()


I just...