I would like to use `when` exhaustively when looking through some sealed classes, but there is no re...

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[jtravis]

I would like to use when exhaustively when looking through some sealed classes, but there is no real result from each of the when clauses. The best I can currently do appears to be below:

val someVariableThatDoesntDoAnything = when(some) {
        is FirstClass -> {} 
        is SecondClass -> {}
    }

It seems like it would be nice to allow val _ = when(some) { ... }

[neworldlt]

We are using:

when (some) {
  is FirstClass -> {}
  us SecondClass -> {}
}.javaClass

It enforces exhaustively

[dsavvinov]

You can upvote feature request as well 🙂
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-12380