Is it by any chance possible to use .trimMargin() ...

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[Andrei]

Is it by any chance possible to use .trimMargin() on const val?

[Andreas Sinz]

const val foo = """ some text """.trimMargin()?

[Shawn]

I’m pretty certain that won’t work

[Shawn]

in order for a value to be const it needs to be a string or a primitive that the kotlin compiler can inline where the val is used

[Andreas Sinz]

yeah, it needs to be a constant

[Andrei]

It won't work as this because it's compile-time

[Andrei]

May be an other way exists

[karelpeeters]

There isn't any compile time evaluation yet.

[Shawn]

you’d have to have a version of your string already trimmed if you need it to be const

[Shawn]

which isn’t really necessary unless you’re passing some large string to an annotation or something 🤔

[Andrei]

so no compile-time trimming of any sort?

[Shawn]

not yet anyhow