How to determine which is better…..Lazy variable v...

# kotlin-native

[Rahul Singhal]

How to determine which is better…..Lazy variable vs function with some return type…….. in kotlin. As we can use them interchangeably.

[Sourabh Rawat]

what are you trying to achieve?

[saket]

Probably not the right channel to ask this question

[Rahul Singhal]

@saket Could u plz tell me the right channel?

[Rahul Singhal]

@Sourabh Rawat In a class where we have function with return type, that function can be converted into lazy variable. So, how to decide should we write lazy variable or function.

[Sourabh Rawat]

lazy block is run only once, but functions are run as many times they are called.

[Rahul Singhal]

@Sourabh Rawat This helps. Thank u.

[Hauke Radtki]

Function is rather comparable to a value property with a custom getter. They basically do the same, one should choose between the two based on whether the action is rather accessing a property of the class or rather perform some kind of action/computation (--> function)