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

[monkyyy via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 18 May 2025 at 15:30:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
```
import nopromote;
byte b = 120;
b = b.np + 5;   // .np overtly marks this as narrow int arithmetic
b = b.np * 2;   // you're on your own here when this overflows
// Though you should't be using narrow ints if you didn't know 
how to
// deal with it properly in the first place.
```

```d
    short b=120;
    (b+=5)*=5;
    b.writeln;
```

It will get more and more absurd with ()'s but.... well its there 
already.