kotlin makes important things explicit

# language-proposals

[kirillrakhman]

kotlin makes important things explicit

[janvladimirmostert]

kirillrakhman:

doesn’t reified imply you’re using an inline function?

[kirillrakhman]

yes, but it makes changing the method fragile. suppose you also have a lambda parameter and you remove the reified part. whoops, now your method isn't inline anymore

[janvladimirmostert]

if you were using a lambda param, intelliJ usually sugests inlining it in any case in which case you would already have an inline fun to take care of the lambda

[janvladimirmostert]

I’m just suggesting that if you specify reified and your fun is not inline already, let the compiler take care of that

[janvladimirmostert]

IntelliJ can still suggest inline fun for the lambda param

[janvladimirmostert]

reified is then handled invisibly as an inline function if not explicitly set as inline.