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What is the purpose of `external` keyword in Kotlin?

What exactly is the purpose of the external keyword in Kotlin?

I guess it's for JNI like native in Java, but I can't seem to find any actual reference or documentation on this.

Solution

  • Indeed, it's an equivalent of Java's native. It's currently missing from the documentation but there's an issue to add it.