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well, i used
```
        <http://handler.post|handler.post>(object: Runnable{
        ...
        })```
and this works. Thanks a lot!

Please don't, it's an ugly workarround. Kotiln offers lambdas to avoid that kind of writing.

I wouldn’t be so quick to label anonymous objects as intrinsically “ugly workarounds”. You may be right about there being a better solution here with a Timer, but sometimes you’ll need the object where interface conversions don’t cover every case

I’d agree that <@UDZH18362> ought to go for a purely lambda-based approach if possible, but there’s nothing wrong about learning how to declare an anonymous class if they’re just going through the book examples for the first time

<@UE2GSP9KJ> but how to use lambdas if i need self-reference and lambdes do not support "this"? (lets assume that i want to use this <http://handler.post|handler.post> API)

there's no ugly workaround there, using `object:` is just using less syntactic sugar to write the same code, sometimes it's needed

<@U74HWEPTP> My bad, using anonymous objects is not a work arround of Kotlin. It's a work arround in this case when the developer wanted to do a repeated job by calling `handler.postDelayed` instead of creating a repeated job.

<@UDZH18362> Lambdas are not built for using `this`, lambdas are kind of unamed functions, not objects, there no sense to call `this`.
I bet if you have to call `this` inside of lambda there is a conception issue, for this case the conception issue was using Handler to do a loop.