Why there is no `shr`/`shl` for `UByte`?

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[mzgreen]

Why there is no `shr`/`shl` for UByte?

[hho]

Good question. I suggest you open an issue: https://kotl.in/issue youtrack

[Ruckus]

Ultimately, all integral operators on the JVM convert to and return Int. I imagine that is the limitation at play.
(Correction, this is only for integral types <= 32 bits)

[ilya.gorbunov]

For the same reason as why there are no such operations defined on `Byte`: we haven't yet decided what their behavior should be. You can follow https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-31083.

[mzgreen]

Oh that's interesting, I thought there is one for Byte. TIL