Re: [GD-General] Java bitching

[Joe <dar...@ya...>]

Try using Integer.byteValue() and see what you get :)

Seems like they should have returned a byte[] instead of a single byte...
but probably no one actually uses the Integer class other than for 
converting strings
to ints and perhaps as an int object container...

Colin Fahey wrote:

>>>>The problem here is that a byte in java is signed.
>>>>
>
>D'Oh!
>
>I guess I've been conditioned to think of "byte"s as
>8-bit values, not small signed integers.
>
>Since "char" in Java is a signed 16-bit integer, I
>guess they would have to make "byte" their signed
>8-bit integer.
>
>I'd rather that Java defined "byte" as "UN-signed 8-bit
>integer", and "char" as "8-bit signed integer", and
>"wchar" as "16-bit signed integer".  But everything in
>Java is signed, and Java is so wildly popular that
>redefining "byte" is impossible without the use of
>a time machine and brain-washing equipment...Set the
>coordinates to Sun's remote Java think-tank conference
>room -- date: the day they decided to call "byte"
>a signed 8-bit integer.  (Note to self: Bring the attache
>case of money, and bet on sporting events.  Meet up
>with the earlier "me" and tell him that 2001 is gonna
>suck.  Don't step on the Butterfly in Beijing, or you'll
>cause a catastrophic change in the Earth's climate,
>disrupt the timeline, and send the planet spiraling
>in to the Sun.)
>
>But, as it is, I'm *glad* the compiler is doing the
>"right thing".
>
>--- Colin
>
>
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