Hey guys! Wondering how does Kotlin allows access to members of private anonymous object in a class?

I think the object needs to be named to access its members, but if you have a private object in a class only instances of that class should be able to access the members of that object

What does it mean that the object needs to be named? In the following example from the documentation, the anonymous object is returned from the function, so I guess the anonymous object being referenced by the function name is what you mean?

class C {
    // Private function, so the return type is the anonymous object type
    private fun foo() = object {
        val x: String = "x"
    }

    // Public function, so the return type is Any
    fun publicFoo() = object {
        val x: String = "x"
    }

    fun bar() {
        val x1 = foo().x        // Works
        val x2 = publicFoo().x  // ERROR: Unresolved reference 'x'
    }
}