small wish, I'd like to have the possibility to `i...

# language-proposals

[elect]

small wish, I'd like to have the possibility to init without body, eg: init = bar()

[Fudge]

I was thinking the same thing the other day.

[SiebelsTim]

I think that's weird regarding the return type of bar. I think the code suggests that init receives the return value somehow.

[Dominaezzz]

Oh! It took me a moment to realise it wasn't an assignment,

[Dominaezzz]

I'm still not sure what it's supposed to be doing? 😕

[Dominaezzz]

One liner?

[elect]

of course it's like the main, bar shall return Unit

[elect]

@Dominaezzz

init {
   bar()
}

[Dominaezzz]

Ah I see.

[kz]

I don’t think this is a good idea.
init is currently the only place you’re allowed to “assign” (initialize) `val`s (outside of initializing inline in the property declaration). If you extract that to a method, people can call it outside of init so those statements will be illegal.

[josephivie]

I get the idea, but it looks wrong. The equals makes sense in the case of defining a function; you're saying that the result of the function is equivalent to the expression on the other side. The equals doesn't make sense in this context.