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Evening,  I stumbled accross issue KT-42619 (<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42619>) , the request for a nullable valueOf method for Enums. Now, I thought, let's contribute and try to create a pull request for this seemingly simple function.
Checked out Kotlin, and started checking where I could add this function .... It seems that it is far less straightforward then I thought.
Where should I start if I wish to add a function to Enums ?

Hi <@UM19VU8RX>, Indeed these functions are only seemingly simple. In fact they are implemented as compiler intrinsics and require special treatment in every backend of Kotlin compiler: JVM, JS, Native, JS-IR, JVM-IR.
Unfortunately, I can't give you many pointers on these implementations other than full text search in the compiler code base would reveal. You can take a look at the implementation of the similar functions `enumValues&lt;T&gt;` and `enumValueOf&lt;T&gt;` in this issue <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-10569> and the commits and issues related to it.

Thank you, I will see what I can learn from it