Are there other languages with feature similar to ...
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Karlo Lozovina
05/27/2022, 5:27 PMAre there other languages with feature similar to Kotlin's inner claseses?
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andylamax
05/27/2022, 5:30 PMJava inner classes???
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ephemient
05/27/2022, 5:30 PMstraight from Java, where all nested classes are inner classes by default unless explicitly declared static
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Karlo Lozovina
05/27/2022, 6:30 PMhuh, should've said outside of the Kotlin/Java/Scala ecosystem 🙂
Python, C#? Something more exotic? I'm guessing Rust/Go don't have anything similar to that...
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ephemient
05/27/2022, 6:35 PMC# has nested classes with reference to parent (like Java)
Python has nested classes with no reference to parent (unless you add one explicitly)
ephemient
05/27/2022, 6:36 PMRust and Go don't have classes in the same form, so it's not comparable
ephemient
05/27/2022, 6:37 PMbut honestly the JVM doesn't really care about nested classes (aside from some access visibility), it's almost entirely a Java (etc.) language convention
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