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I am reading <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/using-gradle.html> to setup Kotlin with Gradle currently.

When specifying dependencies, the document introduces the syntax first, where one does specify the deplendencies especially for the Kotlin SourceSets only. Not the top-level dependency-block.

Is there any reasoning behind this? Any advantage compared to 'just' specifying the dependencies directly at top-level?

Are you talking about this? <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/using-gradle.html#configuring-dependencies>

If you are developing for JVM - declare your dependencies in top-level `dependencies {}` block.