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aph@littlepinkcloud.invalid writes:

> Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Now, can anybody solve the mystery of why the Java language designers
>> thought it would be a good idea to leave out unsigned integers?
>
> It's unnecessary, and the designer(s) wanted to get away from the zoo of
> C's integer types.
>
> With wrapping signed arithmetic, all of the semantics of unsigned
> arithmetic is the same, except for right shift and division
> operations.  

Also left shift and relational comparisons.