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On 8/16/2011 6:56 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> byte/short/int/long integer types

OK, you mean for indexes?  char works too, and long really doesn't -- it 
has to be cast to an int.  For longs, Java recognizes the loss of 
precision using long and requires that you acknowledge that the upper 
bits will simply be truncated.