🚀 go-pugleaf

Steve Schafer (TeamB) wrote:
>SNIP>
> Your code that works with byte variables doesn't "prove" anything.
> You've come up with a clever trick that happens to give you the right
> answer. There's nothing in the Java language specification that says
> that incrementing an integer-type variable that has the maximum value
> will give you the corresponding integer-type variable with the minimum
> value; 

Not only is Steve correct, but the JLS *specifically* states that the 
built in integer types do not "indicate overflow or underflow in any
way" (section 4.2.2).

-- 
Matt Welsh
Inprise Corporation
R&D Engineer, JBuilder