Re: How to check variables for uniqueness ?

Chris Uppal wrote:
Mike Schilling wrote:
I believe that the existing mess could have been avoided with precisely
one change to the existing definition of Java: rather than define a char
as a 16-bit integral type, define it as a non-integral type of an
unspecified size. (Exactly like boolean.)

Of even as an unsigned integral type with a size guaranteed to be <= 31 bits.

There would have to have been small changes to the JVM spec, and to the
serialisation spec too (and to JNI -- though that didn't come out until later).
But nothing of staggering difficulty. Even the JVM /implementation/ would be
largely unchanged since chars are represented in 32-bit slots on the stack
anyway...

For proper interoperability it has to be specified what it is.

Arne
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