> On 10 Feb 2024, at 08:56, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-users@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. Note that you can increment such a value without problems: [0] > my uint16 $x = -1; 65535 [1] > ++$x 0