symmetric signed types

[Walter Bright]

On 1/23/2014 5:44 PM, bearophile wrote:
> So despite what the docs say, it seems the two types need to be the same for the
> sum to work?

I was going by what the spec said.


> While this program compiles:
>
>
> package main
> import ("fmt")
> func main() {
>      var x byte = 10;
>      var y int = 1000;
>      z1 := int(x) + y
>      fmt.Println(z1)
>      z2 := x + byte(y)
>      fmt.Println(z2)
> }

Note the casts.