Hello. I'm not able to reference a method of the c...

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[melatonina]

Hello. I'm not able to reference a method of the companion object of a sealed class as MySealedClass::method. I have to write explicitly MySealedClass.Companion::method. Is this normal?

[Casey Brooks]

Method references (::) work differently than calling a method. There is no instance of that class that can be used to help determine it, so the compiler can’t know if MySealedClass::method refers to fun method() in MySealedClass or its Companion. You could even have the same function in both, so there needs to be a way to resolve the ambiguity

[melatonina]

Thanks, @Casey Brooks! I didn't think of that problem.