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but the fact that

configurations.getByName("implementation").allDependencies.forEach { ... }

filter accepts both

api

and

implementation

and the picture below makes it feel that api extends implementation like public inheritance in C++ 😄 i don't know how is it actually expressed internally (in "implementation details"), since these two configurations are just collections of jars, but

api<-implementation

could be a way of thinking it easy.