On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:58:51AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:23:56PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > >> Urggggs. Doesn't cmd[-1] mean cmd[cmd.length()-2]. Some nasty c-ism? > > > | No, it means what it says, one before the start of the array in this > | case. > > Right ... except for the case where -1 is of char type.... then it is > (afaik) promoted to int first... and you can get -1 or 255 depending > on the signedness of char.
A '-1' literal is always of type 'int'. Andre'
