I’m not sure he was right about that. Sometimes you want unsigned types. If you only have signed types, you have to use them, but you might forget they’re signe

I’m not sure he was right about that. Sometimes you want unsigned types. If you only have signed types, you have to use them, but you might forget they’re signed. That’s almost certainly what caused this bug to be introduced, which will now never be fixed due to backwards compatibility: https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7025832 https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7025832