such as

if(isNull(someString)) { someString.length } else { someString.length }

, the first

someString.length

would give an error or something

not right now, you need to wait for contracts to make it into the language

some languages support a falsey null, like

if(null)

and i was adding a simple function to help with that

there is not much progress/public information about contracts yet, just https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/status-of-kotlin-internal-contracts/6392

thx!