Re: How do I convert integer to cardinal on the fly?

[Todd Chester via perl6-users]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:20 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-users@perl.org <mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote:

    On 2020-01-06 22:54, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
     > Hi All,
     >
     > What am I doing wrong here?
     >
     >  > my int16 $x = 0xABCD;
     > -21555
     >
     >  > say $x.base(16);
     > -5433
     >
     >  > my uint16 $y = $x.uint16;
     > No such method 'uint16' for invocant of type 'Int'
     >    in block <unit> at <unknown file> line 1
     >
     > Many thanks,
     > -T


    Came up with a work around:

           my int16 $x = 0xABCD;
           my uint16 $y = $x +| 0x0000;
           say $x.base(16);
           say $y.base(16)

           -5433
           ABCD

    What is the proper way?

On 2020-01-07 08:33, Brad Gilbert wrote:

       my int16 $x = 0xABCD;
       my uint16 $y = $x;

       say $x.base(16);
       say $y.base(16)

       -5433
       ABCD

If you just want to coerce to uint16

     (my uint16 $ = $x)

     say (my uint16 $ = $x).base(16)

I was looking for a way to do it after the variables were declared