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

[kdevel]

On Friday, 16 May 2025 at 19:19:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> For example, how do you negate a ubyte?

Mathematically this is only defined for 0 over the range of
ubyte.

> Obviously, you can't do this:
>
> ```
> 	ubyte a;
> 	a -=;
> ```
>
> But writing it as `a = -a;` runs into the same error, for the 
> same reason.
>
> Instead, you have to work around it with this baroque 
> periphrasis:
>
> ```
> 	ubyte a;
> 	a = cast(ubyte) -a;
> ```
>
> Does it make sense?

How about:

```
    a *= -1;
```

?