I stumbled across some strange behaviour when comparing Java8 time objects. The below does not appear to be valid code.
val t1 = LocalTime.now()
val t2 = LocalTime.now()
val foo: Int = t1 > t2
Yet hovering over the undersquiggled code shows that the overridden function return type is correct:
Any ideas?
According to the documentation, when using the natively overloaded operators (comparison operators specifically) - Kotlin doesn't just call
compareTo
but rather performs acompareTo
against 0 (thus ending up as a bool).https://kotlinlang.org/docs/operator-overloading.html#comparison-operators
The documentation snippet you attached is admittedly a bit confusing.