How do I prevent these two declarations from having the same JVM type signature?

class NamedDomainObjectContainerScope<T : Any>(
    private val container: NamedDomainObjectContainer<T>) : NamedDomainObjectContainer<T> by container {

    operator fun String.invoke(configuration: T.() -> Unit): T =
        this().apply(configuration)

    /**
     * @see [NamedDomainObjectContainer.maybeCreate]
     */
    inline
    operator fun <reified U : T> String.invoke(configuration: U.() -> Unit): U =
        this(U::class).apply(configuration)
}

Use case: I want to be able to do this:

container { // `this` is type `NamedDomainObjectContainerScope<Task>`
    "allice" { /* Type Task in this scope*/ }
    "bob"<ExtendedTaskType> { /* Type ExtendedTaskType in this scope*/ }
}

My more general problem is that I'm trying to add

reified

overloads for all of these methods in the Gradle Kotlin DSL: https://github.com/gradle/kotlin-dsl/blob/6a3c51a65e8423aa33432b816996360cd32e7906/provider/src/main/kotlin/org/gradle/kotlin/dsl/NamedDomainObjectContainerExtensions.kt

@jlleitschuh what problem are you facing? declarations clash?

Yea. And if I just have the reified version then the invoke the compiler requires an explicit generic at the call site which I don't want.

you can "change" the name of your method https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/java-to-kotlin-interop.html#handling-signature-clashes-with-jvmname

Oooh. Clever. Hopefully it doesn't get slapped down when it comes to the code review. I'll give that a shot though.