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Mastering High Performance with Kotlin

You're reading from   Mastering High Performance with Kotlin Overcome performance difficulties in Kotlin with a range of exciting techniques and solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788996648
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Igor Kucherenko Igor Kucherenko
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Fields and properties

In the preceding example, I used a special function, TODO(), from the Kotlin standard library. This function is overloaded and has two implementations:

@kotlin.internal.InlineOnly
public inline fun TODO(): Nothing = throw NotImplementedError()

@kotlin.internal.InlineOnly
public inline fun TODO(reason: String): Nothing = throw NotImplementedError("An operation is not implemented: $reason")

It's very useful when you're modeling a class and don't want to implement certain class members right away. You can also use it for methods, as shown in the following code:

fun click() {
TODO()
}

And you can use it for constructors as well:

constructor() {
TODO()
}

Let's look at how the Button class decompiled to Java:

public final class Button {
@NotNull
private String text;
private int backgroundColor;
@Nullable
private Function1...
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