On the “Good Java should resemble C” front, I’ve jumped onto plenty of projects that had methods taking char and I guarantee you those methods were not easy to

On the “Good Java should resemble C” front, I’ve jumped onto plenty of projects that had methods taking char and I guarantee you those methods were not easy to understand. And the debate on using typedefs to add type checking for things that are just an int underneath is alive and well just as wrapping an int in an object is in Java.