Well I only really want it for automatic conversion to integer types. I fail to see why this would bite anyone. In what ways were you bitten ?
On 15/3/07 16:15, "Charles Yeomans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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> > Regards, Dan _______________________________________________________ www.13flatFIVE.com The C++ <> REALbasic code migration specialists _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
