Talk:Oak (programming language)

Integer values four bytes
I have removed the following statement:

''Integer values were always stored on 4 bytes, regardless of the type. This changed in Java 1.4.''

It has always been the case that the Java int type is 4 bytes in size, and long is 8 bytes. Java 1.4 didn't change this. If there is a grain of truth in the statement, I don't know what it is and it was poorly expressed.

Paul Foxworthy (talk) 03:37, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I think it was about the short and byte types. I changed to text to reflect that. Hervegirod (talk) 15:46, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It is a very long time ago, but I just stumbled on the Oak spec (it's in the ps at the end of the article for example) which says: "A variable’s type does not directly affect its storage allocation. Type only determines the variable’s arithmetic properties and legal range of values. If a value is assigned to a variable that is outside the legal range of the variable, the value is reduced modulo the range". But probably the storage versus the data type was changed since the beginning of Java 1.0, and not for 1.4? What is funny is that the group which developed Java was in a Sun subsidiary called "First Person Inc." It might be interesting to put this information in the Java_(software_platform) article. Hervegirod (talk) 22:32, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

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