Thinking a bit more about this, I think what feels off about it to me, is the invisible "type gymnastics" - it's something that might be a bad idea, but feel mo

Thinking a bit more about this, I think what feels off about it to me, is the invisible "type gymnastics" - it's something that might be a bad idea, but feel more natural, in assembly (that byte is what you decide it represents at any given moment). The individual numbers are signed ints, the sum overflows and is treated as an "unsigned two's complement binary" and shifted down to a signed int... It feels like subtle subversion of java's admittedly strange type system for numbers (mix of raw integer types and boxed numbers is never going to be pretty...).