Re: Surprising behavior casting BigInteger to int/long for constructor call

That does look a little weird, I'll have to delve deeper to understand
if there is a good reason.
As well as long, the same behavior is observed for short and byte (all
I checked) and also for 2.5.15.

Cheers, Paul.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:54 AM Sean Gilligan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When I try the following code (on either Groovy 3.0.9 or Groovy 4.0.0-rc-2)
>
> class I {
>      long v;
>
>      I(int i) {
>          v = i;
>      }
> }
>
> class L {
>      long v;
>
>      L(long l) {
>          v = l;
>      }
> }
>
> def a = new I(1G)
> def b = new L(1G)
>
> I get `Could not find matching constructor for: L(BigInteger)` when
> trying to construct an `L`.  The `I` is constructed without error.
>
> Am I missing something or is this a bug?
>
> -- Sean
>
>
>