Hey everyone :wave: Has there ever been any discus...

# language-proposals

[simon.vergauwen]

Hey everyone 👋
Has there ever been any discussion to allow for passing regular lambdas where lambdas with receivers are expected? Effectively, ignoring the receiver of the lambda since it’s unused. See snippet below for example.

This would be similar to the current functionality that allows for regular lambdas () -> A where suspend () -> A is expected.

[ephemient]

Kotlin currently allows for passing (T) -> R where a T.() -> R is expected and vice versa. this sounds equivalent passing a () -> R where a (T) -> R is expected, which is not currently allowed either

[ephemient]

if it were allowed then

"🌍".let(::println)

which is currently unambiguous would have to consider both println(Any?) and println()

[simon.vergauwen]

Makes sense. A bit annoying since overloading to allow both lambdas is ambiguous