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I’m having a small issue that is confounding me.  I’m trying to gather my validation messages inside a class’ companion object like so:
```internal companion object {
        internal val validation = object {
            val name_blank: String = "Presenter must have a name"
        }
    }```
The problem I’m having is that the name_blank property is not visible anywhere.
`Presenter.validation.name_blank // Error, name_blank not resolved`

Hi, if you expose anonymous object (as a return type or public property), it get's exposed as it's supertype (in this case it's `Any`, because you haven't declared any supertype). So the properties are not visible outside of the file.
<https://kotlinlang.org/docs/object-declarations.html#object-declarations>

Thank you!  I had noticed that it was exposed as Any, but that didn’t register with me for some reason.  After rethinking my approach here is what I ended up with.  This works and allows for additional validations in the future.
```internal object Validator {
    const val NAME_BLANK: String = "Presenter must have a name"

    internal fun validateName(name: String): String {
        notBlank(name, NAME_BLANK)
        return name;
    }
}```