Is there a way to initialize a delegated property in the same line? For instance: ```fun main() { ...

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[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Is there a way to initialize a delegated property in the same line?
For instance:

fun main() {
    val test by MyCustomDelegate() = 5 //doesn't work
    test = 5 //This is the current workaround
}

I don't want to change the implementation of MyCustomDelegate per se, I just want to call its setter in line.
Is that currently possible?

[ephemient]

your example doesn't work because val can't be assigned 😅

[ephemient]

but is this not something you can handle when initializing the delegate itself? e.g. with the standard read-write delegates such as

Delegates.observable(initialValue) { ... }

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Whoops, yeah I intended for it to be a var, and my use case is as such 🤦

I can handle it upon initialization, sure, but that requires changing how the class is defined.

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

In my case, I'm using a class that wasn't intended to be a delegate as a delegate using extension getValue and setValue
I guess I can handle this in provideDelegate, but I was wondering if there's a neater way