when an anonymous object captures a

var

reference from the adjacent scope in one of its methods, does it not see changes to the original reference (i.e., it captures its own reference to the value when the object is created)?

Assuming this is inside a method, then

var foo

will compile to a

kotlin.jvm.internal.Ref.ObjectRef<String>

to hold the number. This way the object can capture the value of that container class to also see any external changes.

oh I think I see what I am doing wrong... chaining the scoping operators is delaying the

var

being set