Any reason why users of inline classes cannot use ...

# language-proposals

[Quy D X Nguyen]

Any reason why users of inline classes cannot use @PublishedApi internal constructors? I see them in the Result<T> KEEP and I think "forcing" Kotlin users to use a factory function to get an instance has many use cases. Currently I've resorted to just marking the constructor deprecated and hoping users don't use it/

[louiscad]

You can mark it as experimental, and make the experimental annotation deprecated with error level (but add it from Gradle in your module)

[Quy D X Nguyen]

Can you give me an example?

[louiscad]

You can search for experimental annotations in this Slack and on Google and you'll find examples.

[Marc Knaup]

@Suppress("NON_PUBLIC_PRIMARY_CONSTRUCTOR_OF_INLINE_CLASS")
inline class Rating internal constructor(val value: Double)

May break at any time though as Kotlin changes.