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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

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On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:43:18 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>
>Why was there even a need to spell out the size of a char? If you wanted 
>types with explicit sizes, there was already byte, short, int and long.

I think because Java's designers thought on the byte code level.
There, chars are unsigned 16-bit. That they are used for chars was not
really of interest to them.  Much of Java is just a thin wrapper
around byte code. It has no high level features of its own.

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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-02-04 10:36 -0800
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 18:19 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-02-04 15:02 -0800
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 17:54 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-05 11:43 +1300
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? markspace <nospam@nowhere.com> - 2011-02-04 11:04 -0800

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