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Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi]

From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi]
Date 2014-10-21 08:43 -0400
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On 10/21/2014 5:22 AM, ĵess stone wrote:
>
> Well, this *is* the language whose designers had the absolutely
> *brilliant* idea of making the only byte-sized data type signed. And
> prone to being auto-promoted to int.

     I'll agree that making `byte' signed was a regrettable choice,
but what do you find repugnant about promoting it to `int'?  (And
do you have a similar objection to promoting `short'?)

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Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi javalaurence@gmail.com - 2014-10-20 01:28 -0700
  Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2014-10-21 01:42 +1100
    Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi javalaurence@gmail.com - 2014-10-24 05:20 -0700
      Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-10-24 21:37 -0400
  Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi ĵess stone <j3ss.st0n3@gmail.com> - 2014-10-20 17:16 +0000
    Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi javalaurence@gmail.com - 2014-10-21 00:09 -0700
      Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi ĵess stone <j3ss.st0n3@gmail.com> - 2014-10-21 09:22 +0000
        Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi] Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-10-21 08:43 -0400
          Re: Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi] ĵess stone <j3ss.st0n3@gmail.com> - 2014-10-22 06:42 +0000
            Re: Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi] Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-10-22 08:02 +0000
              Re: Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi] ĵess stone <j3ss.st0n3@gmail.com> - 2014-10-22 10:49 +0000
            Re: Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi] Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-10-22 08:52 -0400
              Re: Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi] ĵess stone <j3ss.st0n3@gmail.com> - 2014-10-22 14:00 +0000
                Re: Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi] Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-10-22 10:43 -0400
                Re: Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi] thinbluernime <thinbluernime3@gmail.com> - 2014-10-22 16:34 +0000

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