not sure if this is even the right channel, but ho...

# language-proposals

[tschuchort]

not sure if this is even the right channel, but how soon can we expect local function declarations in inline functions?

[gildor]

Maybe make sense to report an issue or find existing one. I suppose that question "how soon" is not really make sense for this channel without an issue

Just curious what is your case?

[tschuchort]

use case is functional programming with many higher order functions. It's sometimes useful to extract a portion of the expression to a local function for clarity and the outer function should be inlined for performance reasons.

The linter told me that "local functions are not yet supported in inline functions" so I assumed it was a known problem that they area at least working on.

[karelpeeters]

I guess the underlying issue is that local functions are inherently private and inline functions inherently can't access private things.

[karelpeeters]

Maybe they haven't found a solution yet?

[raulraja]

@tschuchort does crossinline work for you there?

[tschuchort]

you mean as a modifier for a local function?

[tschuchort]

nope doesn't work

[karelpeeters]

@raulraja It's about this:

inline fun foo() {
    fun bar() {}
    bar()
}

, there's nothing to crossinline.

[gildor]

Why not just use lambda instead of local function?

inline fun foo() {
    val bar = {}
    bar()
}

[gildor]

Be free to report an issue

[gildor]

Maybe way how I work with code is different, but it’s pretty rare case when I use even local lambda and never local function