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Jun 26, 2025 · Fundamentals

Why Kotlin Data Class Lambdas Break Equality and How to Fix It

This article explains how Kotlin treats lambda expressions as distinct objects, causing two data class instances with identical lambda bodies to be unequal, demonstrates the problem with code examples, and shows how extracting the lambda into a shared reference restores proper equality, highlighting implications for equals, hashCode, and Compose.

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Why Kotlin Data Class Lambdas Break Equality and How to Fix It