is there a way to convert a KFunction to a lambda other than just casting it?

This sounds like it may be a XY problem...

i've got a sort of factory function and want to return a constructor of a class--wanted to just use a reference to the constructor but felt the KFunction was overkill and just wanted to return a lambda

This just works:

class Foo
fun fooFactory(): () -> Foo = ::Foo

so I'm not sure i understand the question?

ah, yeah i had some generic/inheritance there that probably didn't make sense. it was like this:```interface Parent<T> class Child : Parent<Boolean> fun<T : Any> blah(): () -> Parent<T> = ::Child```

In that example T must be Boolean and cant be anything else.

yeah, realized after writing the simple example it was the type erasure issue. so guess doing

fun<T : Any> blah(): () -> Parent<T> = ::Child as () -> Parent<T>

fixes it

No, that will give a runtime time error if

T

is anything else than

Boolean

. Why do you even need

T

, when all you do is call the child constructor?

yeah, that was just for the purpose of a simplified example...in my code i had a longer block there that compared a reified type and then instantiated the right version and returned it, so i knew the implementation would always match T