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
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