Why are void[] contents marked as having pointers?

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:16:08 +0300, BCS <none at anon.com> wrote:

> Hello Vladimir,
>
>> On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:15:11 +0300, BCS <none at anon.com> 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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