is there a workaround to have an inner class with ...
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10/20/2023, 6:53 AMis there a workaround to have an inner class with its body defined in some other file in order to not bloat the parent class itself?
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Youssef Shoaib [MOD]
10/20/2023, 7:02 AMYou could use a
context(Foo) class Barfun Foo.Bar(unit: Unit = Unit) = Bar()e
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10/20/2023, 7:59 AMI cant enable them on MP, can I?
https://slack-chats.kotlinlang.org/t/2743606/i-m-trying-to-enable-context-receivers-in-a-multiplatform-pr
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10/20/2023, 7:59 AMpity 😞
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10/20/2023, 8:00 AMI'll just pass an instance of the parent class in the constructor then
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Vishnu Shrikar
10/20/2023, 3:42 PMWhat is the reason for inner class use? Maybe there is a pattern that could do something similar with less bloat?
if you want the parent class, perhaps you can use inheritance and extend the class?
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10/20/2023, 5:15 PMI'm parsing some format and the inner classes represent groups of logical properties (tens), a couple of these are so much more important than the others that have to be available directly on the parent class. However, they do need some preprocessing
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Vishnu Shrikar
10/20/2023, 5:20 PMCould you define them in another file and just pass them in? If you have koin you can even inject properties directly
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10/20/2023, 6:47 PMyes, that's what I did
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