Style question: When overriding a nullable val pro...

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[Mark]

Style question: When overriding a nullable val property with a null, do you prefer override val myVal = null or override val myVal get() = null

[sindrenm]

I don't see any reason why we'd need to call a function that returns null every time, so the first one.

[diesieben07]

If the val is overridden again in a subclass you now have two fields, one of which is unused.

[spand]

You call a function in both cases. I guess the difference is having a local variable for storing the null or not which seems a bit pointless

[sindrenm]

Yeah, I guess that's true.