Is there any way to denote a T! platform type in Kotlin only, without resorting to using Java

Question

Is there any way in pure Kotlin to produce a T! type as opposed to T or T? - in other words, is the T! type denotable in Kotlin? These obviously don't work:

val t: T! = ...
fun f(): T! = ...

I'm open to (reliable) hacks.

Answer 1

Not currently. There was a proposal for this that was open for a few years and then declined some months after you asked this question: https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/issues/82.