Scope Functions: Introduction

An introduction to scope functions, what they are, why they can be confusing and how the official documentation is somewhat lacking

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This article is part of the Kotlin Primer, an opinionated guide to the Kotlin language, which is indented to help facilitate Kotlin adoption inside Java-centric organizations. It was originally written as an organizational learning resource for Etnetera a.s. and I would like to express my sincere gratitude for their support.

It is recommended to read the Introduction before moving on. Check out the Table of Contents for all articles.

Extensions enable us to create many interesting utilities that give programming Kotlin an entirely new dimension compared to many other mainstream languages. One of the prime examples are the so-called scope functions.

Scope functions are a set of fairly simple extension functions, and are part of the Kotlin Standard Library. Indeed, they are so simple that…