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Ok, I understand that shift operator operands are promoted to an int before the shift is run. But it is not clear what is happening on line (1). Why do I not need to cast here (1) when I need to do an explicit cast on line (3).



Thoughts appreciated.
 
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Originally posted by Arthur Blair:
Ok, I understand that shift operator operands are promoted to an int before the shift is run. But it is not clear what is happening on line (1). Why do I not need to cast here (1) when I need to do an explicit cast on line (3).



Thoughts appreciated.


that is the way shortcut assignment operators work
accutally
b<<=2 is b=(cast)b<<2
refer K&B chapter 3

 
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The compound assngment does the casting implicitly.

so when u say,

byte b = 7
b+=2;

will also work fine.

what it really does is-->
b= (byte)(b+2);

that is
1. promote b to int.
2. add 2 to it.
3. cast the result which is 9 (b+2)to byte.
4. and assign it back to b.

i hope that cleared your doubts.

Thanks
-VK
 
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