I have two identical inline extension functions on...

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[Dominaezzz]

I have two identical inline extension functions on Collection<...>. The only difference is one is on Collection<String> and the other is Collection<Closeable>. IntelliJ complains they have the same signature on JVM (because type erasure). Even though they are inline functions?

[Shawn]

I asked a related question a while ago and didn’t quite get a satisfactory answer, though I suspect the culprit may be type inference ambiguity
https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0922A726/p1542916167726000?thread_ts=1542916167.726000

[Dominaezzz]

Hmmm, it's weird how it works on Native but not on JVM. Isn't kotlin supposed to be somewhat consistent?

[ilya.gorbunov]

Inline functions are still callable from Java, so that doesn't remove limitations regarding their erased signature.
You can use @JvmName to give one of them different name for JVM.

[Dominaezzz]

Oh, okay that'll do.