Yes I miss them in Java as primitives, however there are utility methods for unsigned arithmetic, that get it right.
And despite all pitfalls especially around mixing signed and unsigned in C, unsigned types are very useful, I'd in fact say that for low-level programming they are essential.
Books like Yourdon Structured Method were mainly targeted to business C back in the day.
#include <stdio.h>
unsigned int pack_rgb(unsigned char r, unsigned char g, unsigned char b) {
return (r << 16) | (g << 8) | b;
}
unsigned int pack_rgb_arith(unsigned char r, unsigned char g, unsigned char b) {
return (r * 65536) + (g * 256) + b;
}
int main(void)
{
printf("The color value of (246, 176, 223) is %d\n", pack_rgb(246, 176, 223));
printf("The color value of (246, 176, 223) is %d\n", pack_rgb_arith(246, 176, 223));
}
I would expect a better comment from someone working on the standard.