Hello, guys! There is a function

fun DependencyHandler.kotlin(module: String, version: String? = null): Any =
    "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-$module${version?.let { ":$version" } ?: ""}"

Why does it return Any? It becomes a problem when I use this overload of

implementation

:

implementation(kotlin("...")) { isTransitive = false }

In this variant,

implementation

takes

String

as a first argument and I need to explicitely cast return value to

String

https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/12172 is a reported issue doesn't contain a reason though

Thanks!

If you can be certain that the return type is actually a string, you might as well do

implementation(kotlin("...").toString())

Of course, but it's not too safe from API perspective)