Type converting..

[SotSvart]

When you do this:

Code:

dim onebyte as ubyte
onebyte = 255
onebyte +=10

print onebyte

Then onebyte is 9, I understand that this is because of an overflow, but woulden't it be better if it stopped at 255?

Code:

print cubyte(265) 'convert value to a ubyte value

This also returns 9, here at least wouldent it be better if it returned 255?

[v3cz0r]

If you want it completely different than in any other language and running at 1/5 of the atual speed, yeah.. there's no instruction to do satured operations in most CPU's, but when working with packed data, SIMD, where wrap-around is not always wanted..

[Nexinarus]

adding numbers is done by the CPU, and its been the same since forever. If you want something different, design your own CPU .

[VonGodric]

You could do smth like this:

Code:

declare sub addwith255limit (byref var, val)
   if (int(var) + int(val)) > 255 then exit sub
   var += val
end sub

[SotSvart]

Ok I'll stop whining I'll just have to make a function checking the value myself

adding numbers is done by the CPU, and its been the same since forever. If you want something different, design your own CPU .

hmmm a good idea!