Is there a way in Kotlin to explicitly declare a `...

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[Sylvain Patenaude]

Is there a way in Kotlin to explicitly declare a Byte or UByte literal? I know that val toto: UByte = 128u works when it's an assignment, but I'm looking to make something like this compile:

while (myUByteArray[index] and 128u == 128u) {
}

without having to do an explicit cast like 128u.toUByte().
Thanks!

EDIT: According to https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/kotlin-for-py/primitive-data-types-and-their-limitations.html, I can't without an explicit conversion. I think I will just put the 128u into a local val.

[Dico]

I would go with myUByteArray[index].toUInt()
And compare with 0x80u
Are you trying to read a varint? :)

[Sylvain Patenaude]

Yeah, something similar to a varint from a protocol buffer encoding. But I settled with a private UByte constant of 128u (or 0x80u).