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So I've been trying to make a Map from a List in Kotlin, and as I have not much experience with Kotlin and not much experience with Maps, I turn to the Internet.
Funnily enough, after getting it working, my IDE keeps giving me subtle hints that it can be shorter and more concise.
I thought it would be nice to put the steps here.
style="color: rgb(68, 6...Kotlin lambdas are fully compatible with Java functional interfaces.
But sometimes you need to give Kotlin a little nudge, using a SAM constructor.
SAM constructors (Single Abstract Method) allow you to convert a lambda expression to an instance of a functional interface. The syntax is pretty straightforward.
FunctionalInterfaceName { lambda_function }...
So, I've suddenly recently noticed that whenever I commit a change into Git in IntelliJ that contains a conversion of a .java file into a .kt (Kotlin) file, IntelliJ will automatically make a previous commit containing the comment "Rename .java to .kt" which contains ONLY the renaming of the file.
I thought this was odd, but the reason behind it is that this com...
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So I was wondering what my opinion is about that.
I don't like it a lot, as now it seems like calling a constructor looks similar to calling a method.
The only difference that's visible is that the constructor begins with a capital, and then only if you properly follow the coding style guidelines.
I noticed that where Java prefers clarity of purpose, Kot...
