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

I was thinking the same thing the other day.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.