> this is a code smell Worry not - the only time i ever authored java code was when i was making the world's smallest (still) JVM. You have no reaosn to worry

> this is a code smell Worry not - the only time i ever authored java code was when i was making the world's smallest (still) JVM. You have no reaosn to worry about bad smelling java code using char as uint16 from me :D