Implicit casting for Nullable in XSharp 2.7

[leon-ts]

Hi,

When migrating from XSharp 2.6 to 2.7, the code with implicit casting for Nullable variables stopped compiling.
Error: XS0266 Cannot implicitly convert type 'int?' to 'dword'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

Code example:

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LOCAL a AS BYTE[]
a := <BYTE>{ 1, 2, 3 }
LOCAL dwLength AS DWORD
dwLength := a?:Length

/vo7 option enabled in project.

I was able to easily work around this problem by explicitly casting to DWORD.

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dwLength := (DWORD)a?:Length

But at the same time I want to clarify, is this an omission in the 2.7 compiler, relative to 2.6, or is it intended?

Best regards,
Leonid

[robert]

Leonid,

We had to change this because there was a problem with the implicit conversions that was difficult to fix.
And since Nullable types are "new" in .Net we decided that it would be better to make the conversion explicit.
But of course, we should have documented this decision.

Btw: your example has 2 "implicit" conversions:
- From int? to int
- From int to dword

Robert

[leon-ts]

Robert,
Thanks for clarifying!

In my project, there was only one similar line of code, so its modification (explicit casting of types) did not cause any difficulties.

Best regards,
Leonid