Is there any way to call `bar` here? ```inline fu...

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[karelpeeters]

Is there any way to call bar here?

inline fun <reified A: Any?> foo() {
    bar(A::class)
}

fun <B: Any> bar(cls: KClass<B>) {}

This should be possible, A::class always returns the proper class, even if A is nullable. It looks like the compiler doesn't realize that (I'll probably report this on youtrack). Usually I'd just cast something but I'm not sure how to do that here, I want to cast to A!! but that's not real syntax of course. Any tricks?

[Alowaniak]

Can't you do bar(A::class as KClass<Any>)?

[karelpeeters]

Hmm that does work, but then I completely lose all type information and I need to cast the result back as well.

[Kroppeb]

You aren't using the nullability of A anywhere in this snippet. How are you using it?

[karelpeeters]

Huh it turns out I indeed do not need A to be nullable in my real use case!