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i should probably be thoroughly shot down for this idea, but:

casting maps to data classes or interfaces
```data class Foo(val foo: Int, val bar: Int)

val foo = mapOf("foo" to 1, "bar" to 2) as Foo```

You can't overload casting, it has one well defined meaning for all possible situations already.

yeah, i've had the idea of allowing `as` to be an overloadable operator, but i believe there is precedent in similar languages like scala for why that is a bad idea and makes readability suffer

That’s called (de)serialization. <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/docs/runtime_usage.md#mapper>

Yeah, I'm getting a brainflop today. Thanks.