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data class with different data type example

unfortunately, secondary constructors need to call the primary as part of the constructor signature

I think you can kinda hack what you’re doing like this:

```
data class Example (
  val myName : String = "ellis"
) {
  constructor(notDefault: Boolean) : this(if (notDefault) "not ellis" else "ellis")
}
```

but that’s definitely kind of an odd usage, would probably surprise most folks looking at the code

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what’s usually prescribed in this situation is a factory method in the companion object, optionally implementing `operator fun invoke()` to mimic a constructor call