After updating to Kotlin 1.4, I get a couple of ty...

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[Mark]

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.

[ephemient]

no idea what you're running into but

val retrievedList = myMap[someKey].orEmpty()

could work, right?