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Subject: Re: Using Enumerated Types as Array Indexes
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On 8/17/2011 6:46 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> an it should have been:
>
> # In Java array indexes are
> # int and you have byte/short/int/long integer types and that is it.


OK, you still left char out.  char is an integer type.  And I personally 
don't feel that long is correct -- it's an integer type but it has 
potential loss of precision.  Normally you should use int, since that 
has all the precision you will need.

That's all I'm saying.