Proposal: Add suffixes for smaller primitive numbe...

# language-proposals

[Ruckus]

Proposal: Add suffixes for smaller primitive numbers

Currently, you can specify 3 primitive types will a character suffix:
• Double (1d)
• Float (1f)
• Long (1L & 1uL)
It would be nice to be able to do the same for smaller types
• Byte (1b & 1ub)
• Short (1s & 1us)
• Int (1i & 1ui)

[Ruckus]

You can of course use the .toXXX() functions, but it seems inconsistent to only have suffixes for some of the primitive types.

[Fleshgrinder]

There is a ticket for that already somewhere.

[Ruckus]

Really? I looked for one and didn't find anything. I guess my search-fu must not be strong enough.

[Fleshgrinder]

I'm like 99% sure that there is, yeah, ... maybe I can find it.

[Fleshgrinder]

• https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0922A726/p1619257053167400
• https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0922A726/p1581680855037100
The second one has a couple of tickets.

[Ruckus]

Interesting, thanks. I didn't think about the b suffix conflicting with hex literals.