Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

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Let's test our implementation. For the sake of the test, we can assume that the getPlayers() function returns the following results:

fun getPlayers(): List<Player>? = listOf(        Player("Stefan Madej", 109),        Player("Adam Ondra", 323),        Player("Chris Charma", 239))

The code we have implemented is going to print the following output to the console:

3 players records fetched[Player(name=Stefan Madej, bestScore=109), Player(name=Adam Ondra, bestScore=323), Player(name=Chris Charma, bestScore=239)]Best Player: Adam Ondra

Note that, in the case of the apply() function, we can omit this keyword while accessing class properties and functions inside the function lambda block:

apply {    print("Best Player: $name")}

It was just used in the ...