<Is there an elegant way to assign nullable types ...

# stackoverflow

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Is there an elegant way to assign nullable types to optional parameters?
Given I have the following function:

fun leftPad(value: String, length: Int = 3, char: Char = ' '): String = value.padStart(length, char)


Is there a way to be able to invoke this and pass values with nullable types to the optional parameters as in

length: Int? = getLength()
char: Char? = getChar()
leftPad(value, length = length, char = char)


The only workaround I've tried is the following

fun leftPad(value: String, length: Int? = null, char: Char? = null): String {
val length =...