Array Indexing

[Lionello Lunesu]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> DigitalMars D compiler News wrote:
>> I have another problem (I'm kinda a newbie in D, I come from a .NET 
>> background) when I index an array with a byte. I have this function 
>> that returns a byte I use for index on an array. The thing is that 
>> whan that byte value is over 0x7F where it would be negative if it was 
>> a char the runtime raises an array bounds exception, I know a 
>> workaround and that is to and the value with 0xFF but I shouldn't have 
>> to (and if I perform an explicit cast it doesn't help it) since it is 
>> already a byte. Anyone knows if this is correct behavior?
> 
> 'byte' is a signed 8-bit integer. Try ubyte instead, that's the unsigned 
> variant.

This one has also bitten me a couple of times. "byte" just feels 
unsigned to me. All the "byte"-like typedefs I've encountered in C were 
always "unsigned char".

L.