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Programming Kotlin

You're reading from   Programming Kotlin Get to grips quickly with the best Java alternative

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126367
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Bocutiu Stefan Bocutiu
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Stephen Samuel Stephen Samuel
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Kotlin FREE CHAPTER 2. Kotlin Basics 3. Object-Oriented Programming in Kotlin 4. Functions in Kotlin 5. Higher Order Functions and Functional Programming 6. Properties 7. Null Safety, Reflection, and Annotations 8. Generics 9. Data Classes 10. Collections 11. Testing in Kotlin 12. Microservices with Kotlin 13. Concurrency

Instantiating classes


Creating an instance of a class will be familiar to readers who have experience of object-orientated programming. The syntax in many languages uses a new keyword followed by the name of the class to be created. The new keyword indicates to the compiler that the special constructor function should be invoked to initialize the new instance.

Kotlin, however, removes this ceremony. It treats calling a constructor function the same as a normal function, with the constructor function using the name of the class. This enables Kotlin to drop the new keyword entirely. Arguments are passed in as normal:

    val file = File("/etc/nginx/nginx.conf") 
    val date = BigDecimal(100) 
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