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

[Andy Valencia]

On Friday, 16 May 2025 at 19:04:24 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
>     cast(uint8_t) b = cast(uint8_t) b + cast(uint8_t) 5;  // 
> onlineapp.d(19): Error: cannot
>                                                              
> implicitly convert expression
>                                                              
> `cast(int)b + 5` of type `int`
>                                                              to 
> `ubyte`
>
> }

I ran into something related which was discussed here.  I finally 
found the advanced search on the forum (an amazing piece of SW) 
and here's some more information which may be helpful:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/jvvfmbrvfbwkbwbsyctv@forum.dlang.org

Andy