constructors cint, cshort, clong, etc

[WestleyArgentum]

It would be really nice to have these, imo.

Does anyone know of a clever way to programmatically determine which constructor to use based on just type info? Right now I've got some hacky stuff like this:

if Cint == Int32
    global cint = int32
elseif Cint == Int64
    global cint = int64
end

[WestleyArgentum]

Oh! I'm retarded, it can just be a convert call.

Well, now I know how to write it, would people be open to these?

[quinnj]

Basically a dup of #1470. You can also call oftype(Cint,x).

[WestleyArgentum]

Ah, I see. It looks like this could be handled in your latest proposal over there, I'll wait to see how that plays out.

[vtjnash]

the Cint types are typically intended to be used in the context of ccall, which calls convert automatically

[stevengj]

Implemented by #8712