On Mar 15, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote: > currently if one wants to set a variable of any of the integer > types, one > has to do an explicit cast -such as > > dim myInt as UInt64 = UInt64( myEnum.enumEntry ) > > It would be much cleaner just to do this automatically in the > compilation > phase so we could write: > > dim myInt as UInt64 = myEnum.enumEntry > > > Sign on here if you think this would be desirable: > > http://www.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=zsyboesq
I don't. I've been bitten more than once by automatic conversion of numeric types in Rb, and I wish there were less of it. Charles Yeomans _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
