Re: [go-nuts] Inconsistency in the casting int to byte

Thank you Jan, I read the spec a bit more carefully after you pointed it out and I now understand that a constant and a non-constant value are treated differently and that my examples above is an example of just this. "A constant value x can be converted to type T if x is representable by a val

[go-nuts] Inconsistency in the casting int to byte

Hi! I noticed a strange behavior and wanted to see if this is intended behavior and why this behavior is present or if this is a bug. // Compiles without error x := int(-65) fmt.Println(byte(x)) // Gives the compile time error: "constant -65 overflows byte" fmt.Println(by