Hi all, I'm kotlin beginner, regarding the "when expression", is it just a powerful switch case, or ...

# getting-started

[chet]

Hi all, I'm kotlin beginner, regarding the "when expression", is it just a powerful switch case, or does pattern matching also? You can only check types/values or you can destructure variables also?

Use of when expression with sealed classes almost look like it may be some form of pattern matching expression?

[diesieben07]

You can do matching on types and then destructure, but it's not true pattern matching.

[chet]

Got it, Thanks.