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Is there a particular reason why `Closeable` interface and <https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.io/use.html|use> extension is not in the common stdlib?
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java.lang.AutoCloseable was added in Java 7, with <http://java.io|java.io>.Closeable retrofitted to extend it. stdlib is compatible back to Java 6, so <https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/use.html> can only be in stdlib-jdk7.

as for the <http://kotlin.io|kotlin.io>.[<http://java.io|java.io>.Closeable].use, dunno. it does seem useful, various multi-platform projects have defined their own (e.g. <https://github.com/square/okio/blob/master/okio/src/commonMain/kotlin/okio/-CommonPlatform.kt#L36>)