Can somebody explain "KoinIOSKt.doInitKoinIos()" to me? I'm trying to understand the implicit logic that resolves doInitKoinIos to the function initKoinIos. Where is KoinIOSKt defined?

Swift/Obj-C treat functions whose name starts with

init

as initializers, so the Kotlin compiler automatically adds a

do

on the front of the function name. Arguably we should rename that function so it’s less confusing.

KoinIosKt

is a prefix/namespace that is implicitly added to top-level functions in the file

KoinIos.kt

. This is similar to the syntax you get with Java interop for top-level functions.

Thanks for the explanation. I had searched for both "KoinIosKt" and "doInitKoinIos" in the project and didn't find anything. When searching on Google, I was surprised to see that even Google didn't have any results. I don't remember the last time I saw that. :-)

Thank you for the explanation, Russell. I also searched for this on Google and didn’t find anything. It would be helpful to include this detail in the official documentation (Interoperability with Swift/Objective-C). BTW, I noticed that Obj-C attaches special meaning to functions whose name begins with

alloc

,

new

,

copy

,

mutableCopy

as well as

init

(Advanced Memory Management Programming Guide). It appears that the Kotlin compiler automatically adds the prefix

do

to such function names. Can somebody knowledgeable confirm this?