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is there any built-in annotation to suppress 'unused' warnings for methods in a library? i.e. 'API methods' used by other code.  or a good way i could define one?

Or better yet, _actually_ unit-test those methods :joy:

fair enough, but surely circumstances can exist where that may not always make sense.  plus, i thought being explicit could be nice.  so...does such an annotation exist?

You could add `@file:Suppress("unused")` at the top of the file it will suppress all warnings in that file.

thanks paulius.  and it's easy to create an 'alias' for an annotation, isn't it?  as in, if i wanted to define an annotation that was something like `@PublicAPI` but have it defined as basically `Suppress("unused")` ?

You can only alias the name `typealias PublicAPI = Suppress` so it would still have to be with an argument `@PublicAPI("unused")`.

Didn't know you could typealias annotations like that, that's interesting.