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On 2/5/2013 6:43 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 2/5/2013 11:04 AM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
>> For what it's worth, I would say the biggest mistake that Java made was
>> in the exclusion of unsigned integer types, or, most perniciously, the
>> decision to make the byte datatype be signed.

>
> I hate that as well.
>

>>                                               That doesn't necessarily
>> mean I would want to see it changed at this point, however.

>
> ulong/uint/ushort/ubyte would actually not be that intrusive.


For what it's worth:

<https://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/unsigned_api>