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o

oday

02/16/2018, 2:26 PM

for an actual block of code you use run

m

menegatti

02/16/2018, 2:27 PM

it doesn’t necessarily need to be

run

the important part is that you’re executing something on the event that the left side is null

you can achieve the same result with other stdlib functions… the up side of using

run

is that, in this scenario, the return type is

Unit

o

oday

02/16/2018, 2:29 PM

it is the most useful in this case yes

m

menegatti

02/16/2018, 2:29 PM

but

apply

would work practically the same

anyway, it doesn’t change the answer, just providing more info

o

oday

02/16/2018, 2:30 PM

Im speaking in Android context here, I am used to seeing apply in this context when they wanna do like

property.setText, propert.setOtherThing....

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