Intention of Kotlin's "also apply let run with"
Intention of Kotlin's "also apply let run with" One of the things that puzzled me when I started with Kotlin was why are there so many similar functions which call lambda on some objects and returns a value. After many lines of code and many lines of user group discussions, I found out that they represent a small DSL for easier monadic-style coding. Explanation of this DSL and intent of each function is missing from the Kotlin documentation, so this article will hopefully shed some light on it. There is also a short style guide on GitHub. also With this function, you say “also do this with the object”. I often use it to add debugging to the call chains or to do some additional processing: kittenRest . let { KittenEntity ( it . name , it . cuteness ) } . also { println ( it . name ) } . also { kittenCollection += it } . let { it . id } also passes object as parameter and returns the same object (not the result o