Hi. I want to refer to a method in a companion obj...

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[Gus]

Hi. I want to refer to a method in a companion object and something like TheClass.Companion::method works, but is there an alternative that doesn't involve using .Companion? Something like TheClass::method would've been great but it only works with instance methods. I'm using Kotlin 1.4 in case that's relevant.

[Giorgos Neokleous]

Is that from java?

[Gus]

No, Kotlin

[streetsofboston]

The short-cut TheClass for TheClass.Companion only works if the short-cut is a value, an instance, eg val c = TheClass or TheClass.something(). In any other case, you can’t use the short-cut and you need to use the full TheClass.Companion identifier.

[Gus]

I see. Thanks Anton!