Do you need the reified though Can t you get the class from kotlinlang #announcements

Do you need the reified though? Can't you get the ...

Alowaniak

08/23/2019, 7:01 AM

Do you need the reified though? Can't you get the class from the instance at runtime like

when(defaultValue::class)

or something like that

diesieben07

08/23/2019, 7:06 AM

That's not the same. Your version might get a subclass, depending on the actual type of

defaultValue

Alowaniak

08/23/2019, 7:08 AM

True, but so far he only specifically checks types that don't have a subclass, the others are just in an

else

And even then he could still use

isAssignableFrom

or w/e the methods are