byte & byte

[Ellery Newcomer]

Hm. Thanks for the heads up.

Now how about

byte &= int

is there any good reason why the result type of that isn't error?

On 10/27/2010 10:12 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:49:47 -0400, Ellery Newcomer
> <ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu> wrote:
>
>> can someone remind why the resulting type is int?
>>
>> is it a "c does it" thing?
>
> Yes, but it should be reassignable to a byte via range propogation. With
> C, there was no range propogation, so int & int was also assignable to
> char.
>
> -Steve