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How would you do the same thing with the late initialization of, say, a HashMap where you don't control the constructor?

• gavinray 1y ago
  Hmm, I see what you're saying -- yeah, this seems to be semantically identical to Kotlin's `lateinit` then
  • sagacity 1y ago
    Exactly. AFAICT this will be optimized at the JVM level though, so once you've initialized the constant the JIT compiler can take full advantage of that fact.