On 2/10/24 02:41, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
On 10 Feb 2024, at 08:56, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org>
wrote:
Hi All,
Is there a switch to tell Raku to bomb out with a
type mismatch rather than coercing the following?
my uint16 $x = -1
65535
No, this is intentional behaviour on native integers.
Rats.
I type cast my variable when I can to keep me out of trouble
("Expected Int but got Str"). Guess I got a bit too
lazy. I am going to have to be more careful when
dealing with Cardinals (unit's). I did get stung by this
yesterday. Took me hours to figure it out.
Note that you can increment such a value without problems:
[0] > my uint16 $x = -1;
65535
[1] > ++$x
0
Oh now that is really sneaky and speaks
of any underlying understand of bit wise
operations! :-)
Thank you!
