Is this supposed to not work? (I'm using JVM IR) ```val myNum: Int = 5 val myBigNum: Long = myNum //...

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[Dominaezzz]

Is this supposed to not work? (I'm using JVM IR)

val myNum: Int = 5
val myBigNum: Long = myNum // fine
val myMaybeBigNum: Long? = myNum // not fine

[christophsturm]

for me

val myBigNum: Long = myNum

also gives an error because kotlin does not automatically convert int to long

[Dominaezzz]

Ah, just tried it again and you're right. Odd.

[Albert Chang]

It's by design.

Note that unlike some other languages, there are no implicit widening conversions for numbers in Kotlin.

[Dominaezzz]

That I know, I was just momentarily confused by the nullable discrepancy.