How to assign generic function to variable?

[denkspuren]

Thanks for your reply

@al3c

I don’t think that’s possbile.

I guess so since I didn’t find any syntactic means in Kotlin’s grammar to maintain genericy.

@al3c

Anyway how would you use that variable in a different way than the function itself?

I was inspired by https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/reflection.html#function-references, see val predicate: ... and just try to understand what is possible in Kotlin and what is not.

@al3c

[I don’t get your last paragraph, `printergen` and `docApply` are the same functions.]

They are not the same, printergen calls docApply. Whereas in the Kotlin documentation I referred to, predicate is set with a function instance ::isOdd.

val predicate: (String) -> Boolean = ::isOdd 

My aim is to do the same with printergen and docApply. I have no current use for that, I’m just exploring what’s doable in Kotlin. I’m asking because I might have missed something in the Kotlin specification.