C# XOR on two byte variables will not compile without a cast
- by Ash
Why does the following raise a compile time error: 'Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'byte':
byte a = 25;
byte b = 60;
byte c = a ^ b;
This would make sense if I were using an arithmentic operator because the result of a + b could be larger than can be stored in a single byte.
However applying this to the XOR operator is pointless. XOR here it a bitwise operation that can never overflow a byte.
using a cast around both operands works:
byte c = (byte)(a ^ b);
