Braces vs brackets in functions

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What’s the difference between these 2 forEachIndexed?

  1. forEachIndexed()
    2.forEachIndexed{}
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    Is it possible to take some examples and help me understand the difference please?
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They are the same function, but the syntax for the first (and only) argument is different. The documentation of Sequence shows that there is only 1 function: Sequence - Kotlin Programming Language

forEachIndexed expects a function as a parameter, so if you have a function from somewhere, you can simply pass it:

// Note: This is a lambda, but the function could have been defined in another way.
val anExistingFunction: (Int, Long) -> Unit = { index, item -> println("At $index: $item") }
someSequence.forEachIndexed(anExistingFunction)

If you inline the value above, you are allowed to drop the parentheses as forEachIndexed accepts a function as the final argument:

someSequence.forEachIndexed { index, item -> println("At $index: $item") }

You can move the lambda to the right of the parentheses with any function of which the last parameter is a function type. If there is only 1 parameter, you can also drop the parentheses.

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