Hello, I found an annoying behaviour here (https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.collections/first.html), if the array is empty it is thrown a

NoSuchElementException

. I found that I can obtain what I want using filter and then checking against list size. I was expecting to return a `T?`(meaning an optional of some kind) instead of

T

. So basically instead of doing

list.first({p -> predicate}).orElse(defaultObject)

I have to do something like

var result = list.filter({p -> predicate}); if(result.isEmpty()) return defaultObject else result.first()

. Do you think there is a better approach?

Use

firstOrNull()

instead of

first()

tnx!