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Java does have quite nice classes for doing that sort of thing, but those classes need to be able to get and set the raw values somehow. And, of course, users
by nitwit005 7y ago
Java does have quite nice classes for doing that sort of thing, but those classes need to be able to get and set the raw values somehow.
And, of course, users may need to convert their own binary formats to strings (compression and the like). At some point you'll be dealing with raw values.
- lmm 7y agoYou need the ability to convert between characters and some standard binary representation of them. But the language doesn't need to use that same binary representation as its internal representation, or expose the internal representation at all.