Re: What the heck am i doing wrong? I'm just trying to create a 8 bit unsigned variable.

[Andy Valencia via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 16 May 2025 at 19:04:24 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
    cast(uint8_t) b = cast(uint8_t) b + cast(uint8_t) 5;  // 
onlineapp.d(19): Error: cannot
                                                             
implicitly convert expression
                                                             
`cast(int)b + 5` of type `int`
                                                             to 
`ubyte`

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I ran into something related which was discussed here.  I finally 
found the advanced search on the forum (an amazing piece of SW) 
and here's some more information which may be helpful:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/jvvfmbrvfbwkbwbsy...@forum.dlang.org

Andy