Tristan - What do you mean by lazy import?
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napperley
10/08/2017, 10:12 PMTristan - What do you mean by lazy import?
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karelpeeters
10/08/2017, 10:14 PMProbably that the actual import only happens when something from it is used? No idea what it would be useful for though.
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napperley
10/08/2017, 10:18 PMSo the lazy import is the equivalent of a included Kotlin import that is marked by the IDE as a warning when unused in a Kotlin source file, but is no longer a warning when it is used. 😆
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uli
10/09/2017, 6:57 AMi guess to reduce parsing time during page load/app start
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Tristan Caron
10/09/2017, 7:57 AMIt's useful when you build a SPA, but you don't want to download everything. Maybe the user will not go through all the pages, so we just take what we need and download the missing part of the code when you need it.
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karelpeeters
10/09/2017, 7:58 AMWell you can emulate it, create a wrapper class that only fetches the requited files when the relevant functions are first called.
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Tristan Caron
10/09/2017, 9:45 AMI don't get it. How Kotlin's compiler will know that it should not bundle everything into one file?
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karelpeeters
10/09/2017, 9:46 AMAh right, I thought you were talking about importing a Javascript library. An option would be to separate the code into multiple projects, but that's going to need a bunch of boilerplate.
karelpeeters
10/09/2017, 9:46 AMI don't think it's supported right now.
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bashor
10/09/2017, 12:58 PMRight, we don’t have a builtin feature for that, but you can achieve it by writing
requirebashor
10/09/2017, 12:59 PMI created the issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-20679
bashor
10/09/2017, 12:59 PMAlso, I believe, it can be done by linkers, like webpack.
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karelpeeters
10/09/2017, 1:05 PMCan you use require within a single project though?
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bashor
10/09/2017, 5:59 PM@karelpeeters You can’t use this trick inside one Kotlin module.
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Tristan Caron
10/16/2017, 1:25 PMIf kotlin plan to compile into webassembly, it will be something to integrate anyway http://webassembly.org/docs/dynamic-linking/ Maybe introduce a new keyword?
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napperley
10/17/2017, 1:15 AMFar better NOT to have a new keyword introduced into Kotlin unless it is really necessary!
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Tristan Caron
10/19/2017, 8:42 AMOr just a decorator, Dart is thinking about it. https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/master/docs/newsletter/20170804.md
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bashor
10/19/2017, 7:44 PMWe are going to support JS Decorators
bashor
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