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alasdair_young on May 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Drop...

I wasn't out and out asked, but it certainly came up when trying to optimize a solution.

NOTE: if you are a Java developer, make sure you remember that bytes are signed! (I have no idea who thought that one was a good idea)

yzhengyu on May 22, 2012 [–]

I can't remember it, but there was an interview where Gosling said it was for simplicity.

And rather amusingly (and if I remember correctly...) the char data type in Java is not really the equivalent of char in the other C derivatives.

tedunangst on May 23, 2012 | [–]

Java char is c wchar. Java also has byte.

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