Any plans for making any of these expressions cons...

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[Marko Mitic]

Any plans for making any of these expressions constant?

companion object {
   const val TAG1 = this.javaClass.simpleName
   const val TAG2 = MainActivity::class.simpleName!!
}

Obfuscation mangles class names so having them assigned to constants before obfuscation pass would be greatly useful.
(Or is there a way to this that I'm missing)

[nulldev]

That would be confusing for use cases when you actually need the obfuscated class names

[Marko Mitic]

Just skip const and they will be obfuscated

[Marko Mitic]

Properties the value of which is known at compile time can be marked as compile time constants using the const modifier

Obfuscation is done post-compilation, so `const val`s should have non-obfuscated names and `val`s should have obfusacted names. Am I getting this right?

[karelpeeters]

That's pretty shady, I would expect the const qualifier to not actually change the value of things.

[Marko Mitic]

this is probably the only scenario where it actually changes behavior from regular var

[karelpeeters]

Yes, and that's the problem.

[Marko Mitic]

I don't see it as a problem, obfuscation changes classes and this just "avoids" obfuscation's change

[Marko Mitic]

Isn't this exact scenario where const should be used? Other than optimizations

[nulldev]

No, const is only used as an optimization. It should never change the variable value.

[Marko Mitic]

but const isn't changing the value, it's the obfuscator. const just inlines the value as the documentation says.