Array Indexing
James Dunne
james.jdunne at gmail.com
Mon May 1 11:02:31 PDT 2006
kris wrote:
> James Dunne wrote:
>
>> Agreed. Byte isn't really an integer, it's more for storage. Storage
>> should not care about signedness, it should just be used for read,
>> write, comparison, and bit-flipping operations.
>
> Woah ... byte isn't really an integer? I guess long is not really an
> integer either, and should only be used for bit flipping too :)
>
Of course not. I simply meant that bytes shouldn't be used for
calculations. None of our integral types are literal mathematical types
if that's what you're trying to point out. I meant the word 'byte'
implies storage. Would you prefer octet instead?
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James Dunne
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