Kotlin Programming Cookbook

Working with anonymous functions

In Kotlin, we can have functions as expressions by creating lambdas. Lambdas are function literals—that is, they are not declared as they are expressions and can be passed as parameters. However, we cannot declare return types in lambdas. Although the return type is inferred automatically by Kotlin compiler in most cases, for cases where it cannot be inferred on its own or it needs to be declared explicitly, we use anonymous functions. In this recipe, we will see how to use anonymous functions.