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Here's an unlikely one. Can I cast an `Any?` object to an arbitrary `KClass`. Here's what I would like to do:
```fun Request.bind(modelClass: KClass&lt;*&gt;): Any? {
	return WebForm(this,modelClass).get() as modelClass
}```
I'd like to avoid having to type `val person: Person = request.bind(Person::class) as Person` - that's a lot of references to `Person` in a single line of code.

From your example it sounds like you wnat a reified type parameter:
```
inline fun &lt;reified T&gt; Request.bind(): T = WebForm(this, T::class).get() as T
```

If you really need to take in a `KClass` you can do the following:
```
fun &lt;T : Any&gt; Request.bind(modelClass: KClass&lt;T&gt;): T = modelClass.cast(WebForm(this, modelClass).get())
```

Thank you. I went for the inline reified function and it worked really well.