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Typical Kotlin (Kotlin Budapest User Group meet...

Márton Braun
September 20, 2018

Typical Kotlin (Kotlin Budapest User Group meetup - September)

The talk covers some of the basic built-in types of Kotlin (Any, Unit, Nothing), and how we interact with these types - whether we know it or not - when using basic constructs (the Elvis operator, return statements, null itself) of the language.

Márton Braun

September 20, 2018
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  1. Any The root of the hierarchy public open class Any

    { public open operator fun equals(other: Any?): Boolean public open fun hashCode(): Int public open fun toString(): String }
  2. val noResult: Task< > Unit Unit The type with only

    one value fun () { // Empty! } empty() { // Empty! } Task< > noResult; Unit void Void : empty
  3. Nothing A value that never exists fun loopy(): Nothing {

    while (true) { println("Loop!") } } fun exceptional(): Nothing { throw IllegalStateException() }
  4. Nothing The bottom type fun processData(data: List<String>) { // Use

    data } fun main(args: Array<String>) { val data: Nothing = loopy() processData(data) }
  5. Nothing Elvis’ best friend fun calculate(someParam: Int?) { val x

    = someParam ?: exceptional() val y = x * 2 println(y) }
  6. * 2 someParam ?: return fun calculate(someParam: Int?) { val

    y = println(y) } Nothing Elvis’ best friend x val x =
  7. someParam ?: return * 2 fun calculate(someParam: Int?) { val

    y = println(y) } someParam Nothing Elvis’ best friend
  8. Nothing? Nothing. var x = null x = "foo" Type

    mismatch. Required: Nothing? Found: String
  9. Resources • Illustration style credit  http://natpryce.com/articles/000818.html • More about

    Nothing  http://oneeyedmen.com/nothing-can-save-us.html  https://blog.kotlin-academy.com/kotlins-nothing-its- usefulness-in-generics-5076a6a457f7