Functional Kotlin

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We introduced a new BakeryGood class, with the shared behavior and state of both Cupcake and Biscuit classes and we made both classes extend BakeryGood."

A block of code is set as follows:

open class BakeryGood(val flavour: String) {   fun eat(): String {     return "nom, nom, nom... delicious $flavour bakery good"   } } class Cupcake(flavour: String): BakeryGood(flavour) class Biscuit(flavour: String): BakeryGood(flavour)

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