Dear Kt community, Could you please emphasise why...

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[jtonic]

Dear Kt community,
Could you please emphasise why the following compilation error occurs.
Error:(13, 30) Kotlin: Type checking has run into a recursive problem. Easiest workaround: specify types of your declarations explicitly
in the following case

package ro.jtonic.tutorials.kt.oop.miscs

private const val PI = Math.PI
const val E = Math.E

private fun computePi() = PI
fun computeE() = E

class MyMath {

    val E = FilePrivateUtils@::E.get() // here is the compilation error
    val pi = FilePrivateUtils@::PI.get()

    fun computingPi() = FilePrivateUtils@::computePi.invoke()
    fun computingE() = FilePrivateUtils@::computeE.invoke()
}

Thank you.

[jtonic]

If I apply the Idea suggestion
val E: Double = FilePrivateUtils@::E.get()
then the value is 0 instead of value of e.
the only thing to do (for me) is to rename the field as e.
But I don’t like to have this especially for the class functions.

[adam-mcneilly]

If it's running into a recursive problem, then I think it might be trying to reference the E that you're assigning, and not the E that's in your private utils.

Also, for my own curiosity, why are you assigning Math.e to a val, and then having a function that returns it? Why not just reference Math.E inside MyMath whenever you need it?

[jtonic]

I am learning kotlin language and I am on private private constants and functions. Disregard the values.

[jtonic]

The thing is, how can assign the private constants in kt file from a class (same file) field having the same name.

[jtonic]

I was under the impression that MyClass@ allows to access the things from the enclosing scope.

[ilya.gorbunov]

MyClass@ is a label with the name MyClass

[ilya.gorbunov]

So basically you're just introducing 4 unrelated labels named FilePrivateUtils