bitwise & doesn’t work with bytes in kotlin

Question

Kolin provides bitwise operator-like infix functions available for Int and Long only.

So it’s necessary to convert bytes to ints to perform bitwise ops:

val b : Byte = 127
val res = (b.toInt() and 0x0f).toByte() // evaluates to 15

UPDATE:
Since Kotlin 1.1 these operations are available directly on Byte.

From bitwiseOperations.kt:

@SinceKotlin("1.1") 
public inline infix fun Byte.and(other: Byte): Byte = (this.toInt() and other.toInt()).toByte()