How add support for ? and : as infx names

slavon.net · May 8, 2021, 2:15pm

Example

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https://gist.github.com/slavonnet/08854f1148df842fd30ae99e3c686982#file-inlineext-kt

InlineExt.kt

data class BIf(val res: Boolean, val u: Any)
infix fun BIf.`ee` (  u: Any) = if (!this.res) u  else this.u
infix fun Boolean.`ii` ( u:  Any)  = BIf( this@ii, u)
fun test (): Any {
    return true ii "aaa" ee "vccc"
}

slavon.net · May 8, 2021, 2:17pm

I want change ii to ? and ee to :How?

checkmate mister R

ilya.gorbunov · May 9, 2021, 4:52pm

It is not possible to use ? and : as infix operators in Kotlin, nor to overload them.

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