On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:16:08 +0300, BCS <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Vladimir,
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:15:11 +0300, BCS <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Vladimir,
I don't see why you'd want to work with arrays of signed bytes.
I can think of a number of cases where I would expect numbers to be
in a range like [-20,+20], for instance, delta of small integral
value or golf scores relative to par.
Yes, but how is this related to abstracting data types to a generic
type that can be used for stuff like buffering or networking?
It's not and that's the point. The point is there are uses for 8-bit
signed integer values other than as raw data. I might have read your
comment out of context but it seemed you were saying there is no use for
the signed byte type.
Oh yes; I was definitely not suggesting removing byte[] from the language.
<insidejoke namespace="#d">I'm sure he wouldn't be pleased one bit if we
did that! :P</insidejoke>
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