Light classes?

cypressious1 · September 15, 2015, 9:41pm

In the commit history of the Kotlin repo, I keep reading the term "light class". Can someone tell me, what they're about?

Thanks

yole · September 16, 2015, 12:50pm

A light class is a representation of a Kotlin class as the Java PSI, allowing IntelliJ IDEA's Java support features to work with Kotlin classes.

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