From the JVM specification section 4 2 2 gt Names of methods kotlinlang #announcements

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karelpeeters

02/23/2018, 3:37 PM

From the JVM specification, section 4.2.2:

Names of methods, fields, and local variables are stored as unqualified names. An unqualified name must not contain any of the ASCII characters . ; [ / (that is, period or semicolon or left square bracket or forward slash).

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rrader

02/23/2018, 3:47 PM

In Scala is ok to have such names.

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karelpeeters

02/23/2018, 3:50 PM

Then I guess they secretly rename them before emitting the JVM bytecode.

r

rrader

02/23/2018, 3:55 PM

I think Kotlin do the same with spaces in names

Why not to do the same with / ?

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karelpeeters

02/23/2018, 4:05 PM

Why bother? Do you really need to have variables with a

in their name?

r

rrader

02/26/2018, 7:36 AM

yeap, what name will you have for value

application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml

with this feature, we can have same name as value

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karelpeeters

02/26/2018, 7:41 AM

You want a variable named like that? Yikes.

I understand the "spaces for unit test names" use case, but this is taking it a bit too far.

For the record, I don't think Kotlin does rename spaces, as they're already allowed as you can see from the specification excerpt.

r

rrader

02/26/2018, 9:29 AM

so, what name will you give to that value?

k

karelpeeters

02/26/2018, 9:53 AM

I don't know what that variable means, what type it has, the context, ...

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