Alternative proposal to the above based on <@U0356...

# language-proposals

[joseph_ivie]

Alternative proposal to the above based on @Chris Lee’s point:

expect value class ViewNode
actual value class ViewNode(val android: View)  // android
actual value class ViewNode(val web: HTMLElement)  // web
actual value class ViewNode(val ios: UIView)  // ios

To be clear, this doesn't currently work, but it would be nice if it did.

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Can't you do expect class and actualize it with `value class`es?

[joseph_ivie]

"The following declaration is incompatible because modifiers are different"

[zt]

I've worked around this by making something like this

expect class Something
expect value class Container(val value: Something)

actual typealias Something = Int
actual value class Container(val something: Something)

But it would be a lot neater to not have to use a typealias

[joseph_ivie]

It still doesn't work in my case because HTMLElement is an external interface