also another (probably dumb) question. "Fields cannot be declared directly in Kotlin classes." umm.....

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[Andrew Gazelka]

also another (probably dumb) question. "Fields cannot be declared directly in Kotlin classes." umm... they can? I am confused

[Andrew Gazelka]

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[diesieben07]

That's a property, not a field.

[diesieben07]

It is backed by a field, but it also has a getter.

[Andrew Gazelka]

ah

[sindrenm]

Indeed. So with this code, you wouldn't be able to say new SimpleCoreMain().test from a Java file. At least not without @JvmField on the field/property.

[sindrenm]

You'd be required to call getTest().