Why isn't this 255 as expected

# announcements

[jkbbwr]

Why isn't this 255 as expected

[Ruckus]

My guess is `UByte`s are converted to `UInt`s for operations, just like `Byte`s are converted to `Int`s.

[karelpeeters]

Looks like you're right: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/1266ba682c8983abeb496e079adb8496c710e53d/libraries/stdlib/unsigned/src/kotlin/UByte.kt#L58

[karelpeeters]

What a dissapointment, why can't I just have unsigned modular arithmetic!

[karelpeeters]

If I wanted ints I would have used ints.

[ilya.gorbunov]

You can convert the result back to UByte

[karelpeeters]

Right, and I could have converted the arguments to ints as well, it's just annoying that the default changes type. Adding ints doesn't give longs either, adding longs doesn't give bigint. If I wanted a bigger datatype I would have used that instead.

[ilya.gorbunov]

I don't like it either, but that has been made so to be consistent with signed integers

[karelpeeters]

Yeah I understand that it's now too late to change and that it needs to be consistent.