Hi, I’d like to know what the *`@JvmMultifileClass...

# general-advice

[Rey (Kingg22)]

Hi, I’d like to know what the @JvmMultifileClass annotation is used for when applied at the file level and combined with @JvmName. As far as I can tell, it only generates an additional file and doesn’t provide any real benefit. If I use only @JvmName, it does exactly what I expect—changing the name of the class that holds all the top-level declarations in the file. If I have a declared class, it stays outside that synthetic file-class anyway.
So what’s the purpose of the annotation? It means having multiple files with the same jvmName?

[Klitos Kyriacou]

It allows you to define Kotlin functions in separate files, but only one class file gets generated for them.

[Rey (Kingg22)]

Okay, so if I only want one file, changing the class name and applying JvmMultifileClass would be unnecessary, thanks