What are your thoughts about using getter properti...

# getting-started

[Peter]

What are your thoughts about using getter properties instead of functions? For example val isPresent: Boolean get() = string.contains("smth") .

I'm starting to wonder, if they should be avoided, since they hide the fact, that they can do some work. I feel like fun isPresent() is more descriptive what it does.

[Sam]

It comes up in the coding conventions doc: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coding-conventions.html#functions-vs-properties

[Daniel Pitts]

One thing is that property access can’t (yet) be suspending, so if you’re working in coroutines, it might force you to use a function