Java 8 will have some support for unsigned integers

This seemed to be good news at first. An announcement by Oracle’s Joe Darcy claiming that Java will finally have *some* support for unsigned integers:

http://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/unsigned_api

This will only be added on an API level, though. Not on a language level including all the expected features:

  • Primitive types
  • Wrapper types
  • Arithmetics
  • Casting rules
  • Boxing / Unboxing

A very “light” implementation of what could be expected… In the mean time, if you do need wrapper types, feel free to download (and contribute) to jOOU:

https://code.google.com/p/joou/

See also my previous blog post about jOOU:

Java’s missing unsigned integer types

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