Kotlin Koans—Part 3

The last tutorial’s challange was to take a collection and assemble it into a string using StringBuilder. Java 8 finally gave developers a way to join a String, but Kotlin seems to make it even easier.

This partion of the Kotlin Koans tutorial has us using collection::joinToString. Using Kotlin, we can assemble an entire collection into a String using just one line of code.

fun task2(collection: Collection): String {
    return collection.joinToString(", ", "{", "}")
}

This code is functionally equivalent to what we did in part 2. I also learned a little bit more about the language. Kotlin let’s us have default parameters in our methods. I have to say, while I appreciate Java’s method overloading capabilities, there are times where it’s simplier to use default parameters.

You can click here to see Part 2 or Part 4