How bad would it be for kotlin to coarce Int and L...
# language-evolutionr
Rob Elliot
03/30/2021, 3:42 PMHow bad would it be for kotlin to coarce Int and Long literals to BigInteger or BigDecimal without having to add a method call, if that’s the required type? Am I profoundly misguided for even suggesting it?
Rob Elliot
04/01/2021, 11:01 AMI wonder whether the silence means it’s not even worthy of contempt, or that it’s unobjectionable?
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Youssef Shoaib [MOD]
04/06/2021, 10:11 AMI think I saw a kotlin discussions thread somewhere where a team member mentioned that they're thinking about implementing it. Lemme check real quick
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Youssef Shoaib [MOD]
04/06/2021, 10:25 AMhttps://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/implicit-safe-conversions/21282/7
Well this was about Int to Long promotion but it's probably close enough then
Youssef Shoaib [MOD]
04/06/2021, 10:58 AMThere's also this related KEEP which would then mean that promoting Ints to BigIntegers will be expected under that Kotlin discussions post