Concepts

Notations

The notation always represents a term or works as a pronoun, such as latest, localProperties, latestRelease.

On The Fly

It indicates this task will be registered after project evaluation, so you can't access it in your build.gradle[.kts] normally.

You have to access it in this way:

GroovyKotlin

tasks.whenTaskAdded { it ->
    if (it.name == 'jar') {
        // do something
    }
}

tasks.whenTaskAdded {
    if (name == "jar" && this is org.gradle.jvm.tasks.Jar) {
        // do something
    }
}