Would union types in Kotlin, instead of overloads ...

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[CircuitRCAY]

Would union types in Kotlin, instead of overloads be possible in the future?

[Ruckus]

I believe #CJ699L62W has done some work in that regard, but I doubt it will make it into the language itself.

[Nir]

You can emulate this with sealed classes, but this doesn't work well because you'd have to intrusively add inheritance to the types in question

[Nir]

There's a proposal to allow for interface inheritance to be added non intrusively, once that's available it would be possible to emulate this in a rather verbose but decent way