Well, until you start doing "bit-shift-right"s and the sign bit (high bit) doesn't go to 0 after shifting it down. Actually you typically need to represent individual bytes as ints and write them back out using writeByte() when you're trying to do low level bit-twiddling.
It's a pain but it works. On Feb 11, 11:24 am, Andy Fingerhut <andy.finger...@gmail.com> wrote: > What can you not do with the signed byte type and arrays of bytes > (Java byte[] and Clojure (byte-array ...))? > > I believe these are frequently used for Java I/O, and can be used for > Clojure I/O as well. > > Andy > > On Feb 11, 2011, at 9:22 AM, timc wrote: > > > > > > > > > How on earth is one supposed to do communication programming (not to > > mention handling binary files etc) without an unsigned byte type? > > > I see that this issue has been talked about vaguely - is there a > > solution? > > > Thanks > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Clojure" group. > > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient > > with your first post. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
