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| From | Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? |
| Date | Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:34:05 -0500 |
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On 02/04/2011 12:59 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > Why was it decreed in the language spec that characters beyond U+FFFF are > not allowed in character literals, when they are allowed everywhere else (in > string literals, in the program text, in character and string values etc)? Because a 'char' type holds only 16 bits. -- Lew Ceci n'est pas une fenêtre. .___________. |###] | [###| |##/ | *\##| |#/ * | \#| |#----|----#| || | * || |o * | o| |_____|_____| |===========|
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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-04 01:34 -0500
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