```val a: Byte = 46
val b: Byte = 2
val real = (b ...
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karelpeeters
07/03/2018, 8:53 PM Copy code
val a: Byte = 46
val b: Byte = 2
val real = (b shl 8) + a👍 1
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dalexander
07/03/2018, 9:05 PMshlk
karelpeeters
07/03/2018, 9:06 PMCast away simple smile
karelpeeters
07/03/2018, 9:06 PMThe devs have said they're holding off on these things because the might be real operators for them and there might even be unsigned integer types in the future.
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dalexander
07/03/2018, 9:08 PMYeah, I'm honestly surprised that you can add bytes directly. The reason being they don't like adding primitive operations for something that doesn't have a JVM bytecode mapping (ie. there's no bytecode for
byteOne + byteTwodalexander
07/03/2018, 9:08 PMBut I guess enough people were running into the issue they may have changed it?
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karelpeeters
07/03/2018, 9:10 PMHuh I didn't know that, thanks!
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gildor
07/04/2018, 8:02 AMImplicit casting is the thing that Kotlin Team tries to avoid as much as possible.
gildor
07/04/2018, 8:03 AM2 Views