Kotlin Quick Start Guide by Marko Devcic

Author:Marko Devcic
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: COM051000 - COMPUTERS / Programming / General, COM051280 - COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Java, COM051230 - COMPUTERS / Software Development and Engineering / General
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 2018-08-31T07:05:02+00:00

Returning a value from a lambda

The previous click listener lambda had no return type. But, what if your lambda needs to return a value? Let's write a lambda that returns a sum of two integers that are passed as arguments:

{ a: Int, b: Int -> a + b }

You probably noticed that there is no return keyword. In fact, if we declared a return keyword, we'd get a compiler error stating that return is not allowed there:

// compiler error

{ a: Int, b: Int -> return a + b }

The return keyword is not allowed and Kotlin implicitly considers the last line of a lambda as a return expression. Of course, only if the lambda signature states that there should be a return value. In a void method, like the click listener example from the beginning, the last line is not considered as a return expression.

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