My first guess was to define a `fun Map<Any, Any>.cast(value: RubyHash) = value.toMap()`. But ...

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[Ron K]

My first guess was to define a fun Map<Any, Any>.cast(value: RubyHash) = value.toMap(). But this doesn't work.

[Andreas Sinz]

you have a LinkedHashMap and need to turn it into a RubyHash?

[Ron K]

The other way around. I have a RubyHash and need to turn it into a LinkedHashMap

[Andreas Sinz]

RubyHash implements Map, is there a specific reason you need a LinkedHashMap?

[Ron K]

Damn, I might have been blind when I've looked it up. Thanks

[Ron K]

But just for the record. Would it be possible to define some smart casting to different types?

[Ron K]

And the reason why I used LinkedHashMap is, that I need a fixed order in which the elements were put into the map

[540grunkspin]

How would you want a cast like that to work. It would be possible to implement a mapper from one type to another? Casts don’t really change the type of something but rather makes it more concrete

[Andreas Sinz]

@Ron K nope, no custom smartcasting or implicit casting in kotlin