Re: disable coercing?

On 2/10/24 02:41, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
>> On 10 Feb 2024, at 08:56, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is there a switch to tell Raku to bomb out with a
>> type mismatch rather than coercing the following?
>>
>>> my uint16 $x = -1
>> 65535
> 
> No, this is intentional behaviour on native integers.

Rats.

I type cast my variable when I can to keep me out of trouble
("Expected Int but got Str").  Guess I got a bit too
lazy.   I am going to have to be more careful when
dealing with Cardinals (unit's).  I did get stung by this
yesterday. Took me hours to figure it out.

> Note that you can increment such a value without problems:
> 
> [0] > my uint16 $x = -1;
> 65535
> [1] > ++$x
> 0

Oh now that is really sneaky and speaks
of any underlying understand of bit wise
operations!  :-)

Thank you!