Byte to unsigned short conversion

[m.h.shams]

Recently, I needed such feature too. maybe we can ask for it in standard library.

toUnsignedInt() and toUnsignedLong() extension functions for Byte and Int

Hi, Byte.toUnsignedInt() Byte.toUnsignedLong() Int.toUnsignedLong() Above functions are available in java 8 and would be nice to see them in Kotlin too. They are quite handy when one wants to read the value without considering the sign byte.