In Java you can do the following:
boolean a = true;
if(a = false) {
//////
}
And a will be set to false and be used after that as argument. But in kotlin, I couldn't find a way to do that, except for:
var a = true
a = false
if(a) {
}
Is there any better way?
You can do this inline in a slightly different order - by writing the value to be assigned (false) first, and using the also scope function to assign it:
var a = true
if(false.also { a = it }) {
}
However, I would not recommend you to do this in either Java or Kotlin, as this is not very readable. There is nothing bad about writing the assignment as a separate statement.