Cannot use btiwise operators in expression assigned to float

[Mistrel]

I just realized that we cannot do this:

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Float.f=Integer&$FFFF

It produces an error:

Can't use any of the following operands with floats: <<, >>, &, |, !, %.

But we can do this:

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Integer=Integer&$FFFF
Float.f=Integer

Am I missing something?

[Tenaja]

My guess would be, since it is a float assignment, the integer is converted to a float first, and that causes the err since we cannot do bit operations on floats.

[sys64802]

It shouldn't because it's clearly limiting and the integer expression "Integer & $FFFF" should be evalued and then converted to float to be assigned, but it's how the PB compiler has been written.

[Mistrel]

I always thought that promotion came after evaluating an expression in a similar fashion to C. This definitely is not the case:

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LongA.l=2147483647
LongB.l=2147483647
Quad.q=LongA*LongB

Debug Quad.q

[Tenaja]

I am pretty sure PB promotes immediately after the first float is found.

[Mistrel]

This doesn't work either and reports the same error:

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Long.l=Float.f&$FFFF

[sys64802]

Unsurprisingly since "&" doesn't work with floats, as the popup error reminds you.

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Long.l=Int(Float.f) & $FFFF

This is different:

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Float.f=Integer&$FFFF

You don't have a float as operand for "&" here, so it should work, and then cast the result.

[Mistrel]

I know that. It's just that it seemed as though promotion is done before the expression but in second case it is not. So the rules seem inconsistent?