At the expense of sounding completely ignorant, wh...

# language-proposals

[poohbar]

At the expense of sounding completely ignorant, why is not implicitly initializing the nullable properties a good thing?

[benleggiero]

It's consistent; all declared fields in Kotlin must be explicitly given a value before they can be accessed. Creating exceptions reduces clarity

[poohbar]

Kotlin has no fields.

[poohbar]

only properties and backing fields

[benleggiero]

You know what I mean. "Value-holders": `var`s add `val`s that aren't delegated or dynamic `get()`ers

[benleggiero]

Heck, even delegated ones need the delegate right away