How to write a static block in kotlin classes?
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muralimohan962
08/01/2018, 6:22 AMHow to write a static block in kotlin classes?
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wcaokaze
08/01/2018, 6:23 AMWhy do you need it? 🤔
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muralimohan962
08/01/2018, 6:25 AMWhile loading class i would like some code to execute.
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wcaokaze
08/01/2018, 6:27 AMKotlin doesn’t have it IMO. I use Java whenever some low-level operations are needed.
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chi
08/01/2018, 6:49 AM@muralimohan962 companion objects with init blocks might seems like the closest to that.
@wcaokaze can you provide examples of these low-level operations where one has to resort to writing Java?
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wcaokaze
08/01/2018, 7:17 AM@chi
I rarely do it. My project contains 0.1% Java code for bitwise operations
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chi
08/01/2018, 7:22 AMOkay. But you can still do those bitwise operations well in Kotlin
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wcaokaze
08/01/2018, 7:29 AMYep. But if they are the most part of a class, Kotlin is a bit unreadable.
It almost never happens
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rudolf.hladik
08/02/2018, 9:26 PMKotlin has companion objects, they are like static. with @JvmStatic annotation its same as static. Not sure about the correctnes of annotation name, but im sure you can google it
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