cast with as keyword produces error unlike versions 1.5 and before

I reduced the priority, because I think this is no critical bug. Next thing is, that I am not sure this is even a bug. Didn't we change the implementation to let asType(int) read a string number, parse the number and then give back that number? This conflicts with single char strings like "1", where the old code returned the ordinal and the new code will return 1. IMHO if we want to keep that change, then the current behavior is correct and should not be changed. The user should have used b=(int)a, which behaves still as in 1.5.8.

Jochen's comment is correct. We now have this:

def d = "1234"
assert d as int == 1234

You can get the old behavior by converting to char first:

def a = "V"
def b = a as char
def c = b as int
println c

Or more compactly:

int b = "V" as char
assert b == 86

From my point of view I think we can close this issue.

AS I agree with Paul I close this as "Won't fix"