Empty Arrays

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Hallo there

Sorry, if that is the wrong forum for this kind of questions. But I didn’t find another one.

My question is, how can I declare an empty array? I just found the way for create arrays with providing the desired size and the init function.

Thanks in advance
Stefan

2

The easiest way is this:

``

val a = array<Int>()

You can also say

``

val a = Array<Int>(0, {0})

3

Thanks for the quick answer! Now I also understand function literals a little bit better.

The web demo mentioned, that with your second example a class has been generated (like namespace$main$a$1.class) while with the first example no class has been generated. Please, could you explain why Array leads to a new class and array() not??

I tried to find the library function array() but with no succcess. Where can I find it’s definition?

Cheers
Stefan

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You can simply navigate to a function definition by Ctrl+Click (Cmd+Click on Mac).

Here’s the source on github: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/ArraysJVM.kt#L9

The class is created due to lack of an optimization in the current version of the compiler. It won’t be created in the future.

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Thanks. Same behaviour like in java files... I should have been trying this :8}

6

Or

val arr = emptyArray<Int>()