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What is the point of List.component1 -&gt; 5 functions?

These functions are automatically called in destructuring declarations. This allows you to write:
```val (first, second, third) = myList```
Behind the scenes, this will call `myList.component1()` (and 2 and 3) and assign the result to each of these variables.

You will also find such functions automatically generated for data classes.
You can also declare such functions yourself in your own classes if you want.

You can read more here: <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/destructuring-declarations.html>

Thanks so much. Why does it stop at 5 though?

because more than 5 destructuring declarations in a statement is code smell?

Well, I don't know for sure, but that would be my guess, yes