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| Date | 2011-05-05 06:11 -0700 |
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| From | Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: char to decimal |
| References | <92ea64F3avU1@mid.individual.net> <Xns9EDBB8224D5B6vaj4088ianshef@138.125.254.103> <iptlkq$62g$2@lust.ihug.co.nz> <ipu045$6mn$1@news.albasani.net> <slrnis51su.phi.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> |
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On 5/5/2011 4:18 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > Lew<noone@lewscanon.com> wrote: >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> Ian Shef wrote: >>>> A char is much like an int except that: >>>> It has 16 bits instead of 32. >>>> It is unsigned, with a value from 0 through 65535. >>>> It gets special handling in some places, such as by System.out.println. >>>> The special handling by System.out.println can be avoided by casting to an >>>> int. >>> Funny, they could do all this for char, but not for boolean. >> Booleans are not numbers. > > But characters are. So, 'a' is just as naturally 97 as true isn't 1 > I would phrase it slightly differently. There is a strong natural association between a character and the numeric value of its Unicode representation. There are several different ways of mapping between the two Boolean values and integers, especially considering the fact that the smallest integer type in Java has 256 different values, and Boolean only has two. Patricia
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char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 01:43 +0100
Re: char to decimal Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2011-05-04 17:49 -0700
Re: char to decimal Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-05-05 01:06 +0000
Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-05 20:03 +1200
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 07:03 -0400
Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 11:18 +0000
Re: char to decimal Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-05-05 06:11 -0700
Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 01:59 +1200
Re: char to decimal Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-05-05 16:53 +0200
Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 11:49 +1200
Re: char to decimal Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-05-06 08:46 +0200
Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 18:43 +1200
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 06:52 -0400
Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 11:39 +0000
Re: char to decimal Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-05-05 14:13 -0400
Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 11:49 +1200
Re: char to decimal Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-05-06 08:47 +0200
Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 18:43 +1200
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 06:54 -0400
Re: char to decimal Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2011-05-06 10:30 +0300
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:05 -0400
Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 14:56 +0000
Re: char to decimal Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-05 11:48 -0700
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:06 -0400
Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 21:28 +0000
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:32 -0400
Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 08:31 +0000
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:04 -0400
boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 09:00 -0400
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-05-06 06:54 -0700
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Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-06 08:30 -0700
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-05-06 15:35 +0100
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 19:12 +0200
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 13:26 -0400
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 21:25 -0400
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 21:28 -0400
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-09 12:51 -0400
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-09 23:54 +0000
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-09 20:51 -0400
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-10 11:20 -0400
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-10 13:47 +1200
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-10 11:02 -0400
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-11 14:05 +1200
Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-11 08:11 -0400
Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 02:12 +0100
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-04 21:59 -0400
Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 16:14 +0100
Re: char to decimal markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-05 11:20 -0700
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:10 -0400
Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 22:00 +0000
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 18:20 -0400
Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-06 10:45 +0100
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 06:56 -0400
Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 11:48 +0000
Re: char to decimal Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-05-06 08:38 -0400
Re: char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-06 09:47 -0400
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 12:02 -0400
Re: char to decimal Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 19:15 +0200
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 14:01 -0400
Re: char to decimal Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 20:07 +0200
Re: O/T linguistics (Was: char to decimal) Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 15:28 -0400
Re: O/T linguistics Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 21:44 +0200
Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 23:57 +0000
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 12:00 -0400
Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-06 18:29 +0100
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 14:02 -0400
Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-07 01:09 +0100
Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-07 00:18 +0000
Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 21:30 -0400
Re: char to decimal Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-04 22:03 -0700
Re: char to decimal "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2011-05-05 01:14 -0700
Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 16:15 +0100
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