"On the JVM: the named argument syntax cannot be u...

# getting-started

[Florian]

"On the JVM: the named argument syntax cannot be used when calling Java functions because Java bytecode does not always preserve names of function parameters."

This sentence just means that I can't call Java methods from Kotlin with the named parameter syntax?

[Dominaezzz]

Sometimes you just need to explicitly here the answer from someone else.

[Florian]

Yea lol, when I wrote it I already thought "this sounds kinda exactly the same" but there was a very subtle uncertainty

[Florian]

yea that makes sense

[Florian]

I think it's clear now