Is there a way to reference an extension function by package? My issue: I want to

expect

an extension function that is available on some targets and not on others. E.g.:

File.readBytes():ByteArray

is defined in jvm but not on native. So I want to have an actual expression that references the existing extension function (located in

<http://kotlin.io|kotlin.io>

) for jvm and roll my own implementation for native targets.

So you're trying to write actual

File.readBytes()

extension and can't call

readBytes

from

<http://kotlin.io|kotlin.io>

, because it is now shadowed by your extensions? In this case you can import

readBytes

with alias, and call it by the new alias then:

import kotlin.io.readBytes as kotlinReadBytes

fun File.readBytes(...) = this.kotlinReadBytes(...)

That does the trick, thank you very much!