hello, it seems that the lateinit isInitialized ca...

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[hoang]

hello, it seems that the lateinit isInitialized can only be called from inside the class, is it a bug or something?

class AClass {
    lateinit var aLateInit: String

    fun isInit() = this::aLateInit.isInitialized // OK
}

val obj1 = AClass()
val isInit = obj1::aLateInit.isInitialized // Not Compile

[elizarov]

By design to preserve encapsulation.

[evanchooly]

ahhhh. interesting. good to know.

[evanchooly]

makes sense.

[hoang]

thank you 🙂

[evanchooly]

is that a compiler/language special case? doesn’t seem to be anything in the source for lazy about that.

[hoang]

I think if the property aLateInit is public, it should be able to check its initialization state publicly

[elizarov]

You can always declare a separate public property for that if that is you intent.

[hoang]

yes, in fact the fun isInit() above is ok for my intent. I'm just a bit curious about the design decision to prohibit the direct access in the first place.