Hi, I’m creating a kotlin library and I’d need to...

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[GarouDan]

Hi,

I’m creating a kotlin library and I’d need to create a lot of functions.

Is there a way to get (programatically) all keywords used in kotlin?
I’ll need to escape then with backticks `.
One example is the continue keyword that should become ``continue`` when I escape.

[elizarov]

Programmatically - no. But you can copy a list from this page: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/keyword-reference.html

[GarouDan]

Oh, thanks, this will help 😉

[Matteo Mirk]

You can’t resolve them programmatically because Kotlin is not able to introspect its own grammar. Probably LISP can.

[GarouDan]

I’ve created a list here (https://gist.github.com/Danilo-Araujo-Silva/95040cd8bc63af841187a9c261527354)

in case someone else needs something like that

[elizarov]

That’s a weird mix. You only need to back-tick hard-keywords. E.g, you can safely have val data = 123 without any backticks, but you cannot have val val = 123

[Matteo Mirk]

@elizarov this is a interesting distinction, what makes an hard-keyword? Why doesn’t “data” need to be quoted?

[elizarov]

It’s the first thing written on the page I’ve linked to:

Hard Keywords

The following tokens are always interpreted as keywords and cannot be used as identifiers:

[Matteo Mirk]

I missed that page sorry, I didn’t imagine there was this distinction, thanks