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Yeah, unfortunately if the existing class doesn’t have a companion method you can’t add companion extension methods :disappointed:

dalexander: I remember reading something about adding implicit synthetic companion objects, but it was a while ago and I don't remember the details. I wonder how that would work out, or if it would at all.

I saw the ticket for it in youtrack a few weeks ago, there hadn’t been any activity on it for about 6 months.

I suspect it’s something that’s sufficiently nuanced that it would take a bit of effort to create a reasonable design.

That's probably true. I wonder what corner cases would pop up. You don't happen to have a link to the ticket, do you? Google didn't turn up anything useful.

<https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/companion-object-and-function-extension/1921>

(I guess it wasn’t on youtrack =p)  This is the issue I remember seeing though.

Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:  It looks like there wasn't hardly any discussion.