Why can't I take out the subclasses of a sealed type outside of the class definition in script files...

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[Kroppeb]

Why can't I take out the subclasses of a sealed type outside of the class definition in script files, like you can do with normal Kotlin files?

[Czar]

kotlin script is not the same as a kotlin file. For kotlinc script is kind of like a class.
For example take a look at this:

private val a = ""
class Z {
	val zA = a
}

if it was a normal kotlin file, this would work. But in a script this won't because for kotlinc a is defined in the script class, and inner classes cannot see private properties of the parent class. Same goes for sealed, you cannot do something like this:

class P {
	sealed class Z
	class C : Z()
}

so

sealed class Z
class C : Z()

doesn't work in the kotlin script either.