After updating to Kotlin 1.4, I get a couple of type inference issues regarding

emptyList()

for example:

val retrievedList = myMap[someKey] ?: emptyList()

now gives a compiler warning (though the IDE doesn’t complain) when trying to access items in

retrievedList

so I need to explicitly set

List<MyListItemType>

as the

retrievedList

type or the

emptyList()

generic. I can’t seem to reproduce this in the kotlin playground, so can only assume there is some inconsistency caused by my gradle build scripts or some build caching issue.

no idea what you're running into but

val retrievedList = myMap[someKey].orEmpty()

could work, right?