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# language-proposals

[ilya.gorbunov]

@raulraja Type ascription was removed not long before Kotlin 1.0 presumably to free that syntax for map literals 😉

[benleggiero]

Perhaps we could bring it back with as, like it seems Swift does

[Andreas Sinz]

IMO no, then you have some as that cast values and some as that doesn't cast, but instead tells the compiler what type it is

[benleggiero]

IMO the current as should be as!!, since it’s not conditional. Then as should be type hinting for safe casting, and as? should remain as-is