is there any way to bypass using a built-in infix ...

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[fred.deschenes]

is there any way to bypass using a built-in infix function for a specific statement (ie: I'm using a library that has a "to" function and it's always using Kotlin's "to" to create a Pair)?

[Pavlo Liapota]

Maybe this will help?
import <http://foo.to|foo.to> as myTo

[fred.deschenes]

can't do that unfortunately, the "to" is a member function (and the lib isn't in Kotlin)

[LeoColman]

AFAIK, you must import Kotlin's to for it to work. Maybe you can import it as another name?

[fred.deschenes]

don't think so, it's defined as public infix fun <A, B> <http://A.to|A.to>(that: B): Pair<A, B> so I can't really import it

[Pavlo Liapota]

Can you give more details or example?
You say that there is a member function to and when you try to call it, extension function to is called?
This should not happen as member function is always winning agains extension function.

[fred.deschenes]

oh nevermind I'm dumb, there's no to(other: T) function on the serviceBinder, so it's defaulting to using the <http://A.to|A.to> function for tuples. Still kinda confusing though

[Pavlo Liapota]

it is not “for tuples” 🙂
it is extension function for any type 🙂

[fred.deschenes]

yeah that's what was confusing me, I assumed that the serviceBinder had a to function with the same signature so it should have used that one, but apparently HK2 is inverted compared to Guice (bind(instance).to(class) instead of bind(class).to(instance)). Or maybe I just need more coffee 😛 Thx for the help though!