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Hi all, very general Kotlin question here.  Is there a way to access a property of a context object when using when clause?  For example let's say I have someObj reference which has a string property of propOfSomeObj.


when (someObj) {
  ::propOfSomeObj.isBlank() -&gt; ...

}

Unfortunately not, though there is a long standing issue to add arbitrary lambdas to `when` clauses.

<@U10EJRH2L>, gotcha.  Thanks very much for your reply.  Really appreciate it!

~Actually you sort of can. You can assign the context to a val. This is valid:~

```when(val it = someObj) {
  it.propOfSomeObj.isBlank() -&gt; 
}
```
~However it does add some verbosity. I agree it would be nice for the context to be bound to some default name~

That doesn't work, as it's not using the result of `isBlank`, but instead comparing it to `someObj`.

Oh crap, yeah, you’re right. I should not code after midnight :wink: