I once took a C++ course with someone on the C++ standards committee who implied that Java made the right decision to avoid having unsigned integers because (1) most programs that use unsigned integers can do just as well with signed integers and this is more natural in terms of how people think, and (2) using unsigned integers results in lots easy to create but difficult to debug issues such as integer arithmetic overflow and losing significant bits when converting between signed and unsigned types. If you mistakenly subtract 1 from 0 using signed integers it often more quickly causes your program to crash and makes it easier to find the bug than if it wraps around to 2^32 - 1, and compilers and static analysis tools and runtime checks have to assume you know what you're doing since you chose to use unsigned arithmetic. Also, negative numbers like -1 can often represent something useful, like a field being ignored/defaulted/unset while if you were using unsigned you'd have to reserve a special value like 2^32 - 1 or something similar.

Long ago, when memory was limited and processors did not automatically operate on 64 bits at once, every bit counted a lot more, so having signed vs unsigned bytes or shorts actually mattered a lot more often and was obviously the right design decision. Today just using a signed int is more than sufficient in almost all regular programming cases, and if your program really needs to use values bigger than 2^31 - 1, you often just want a long anyway. Once you're into the territory of using longs, it's even harder to come up with a reason why you really can't get by with 2^63 - 1 positive integers. Whenever we go to 128 bit processors it'll be even less of an issue.

Java确实有unsigned类型，或者至少有一个:char是一个unsigned short类型。所以不管高斯林找什么借口，他都不知道为什么没有其他无符号类型。

还有短型:短型一直被用于多媒体。原因是您可以在一个32位无符号长函数中拟合2个样本，并向量化许多操作。8位数据和无符号字节也是如此。你可以在一个寄存器中放入4或8个样本进行向量化。

恕我直言，原因是他们太懒了，没有去实施/纠正这个错误。 暗示C/ c++程序员不理解unsigned，结构，联合，位标志…太荒谬了。

如果你正在和一个基本的/bash/java程序员交谈，即将开始用C语言编程，没有任何真正的语言知识，或者你只是在说你自己的想法。；）

当你每天处理文件或硬件的格式时，你会开始质疑，他们到底在想什么。

一个很好的例子是尝试使用无符号字节作为自旋转循环。 对于那些不理解最后一句话的人，你究竟是如何称自己为程序员的。

DC

这是对高斯林和其他人的采访，关于简单:

Gosling: For me as a language designer, which I don't really count myself as these days, what "simple" really ended up meaning was could I expect J. Random Developer to hold the spec in his head. That definition says that, for instance, Java isn't -- and in fact a lot of these languages end up with a lot of corner cases, things that nobody really understands. Quiz any C developer about unsigned, and pretty soon you discover that almost no C developers actually understand what goes on with unsigned, what unsigned arithmetic is. Things like that made C complex. The language part of Java is, I think, pretty simple. The libraries you have to look up.

因为无符号类型是纯粹的邪恶。

事实上，在C语言中unsigned int生成unsigned更是邪恶的。

下面是一个让我不止一次头疼的问题的快照:

// We have odd positive number of rays, 
// consecutive ones at angle delta from each other.
assert( rays.size() > 0 && rays.size() % 2 == 1 );

// Get a set of ray at delta angle between them.
for( size_t n = 0; n < rays.size(); ++n )
{
    // Compute the angle between nth ray and the middle one.
    // The index of the middle one is (rays.size() - 1) / 2,
    // the rays are evenly spaced at angle delta, therefore
    // the magnitude of the angle between nth ray and the 
    // middle one is: 
    double angle = delta * fabs( n - (rays.size() - 1) / 2 ); 

    // Do something else ...
}

你注意到这个bug了吗?我承认我是在使用调试器之后才看到它的。

由于n是无符号类型size_t，整个表达式n - (ray .size() - 1) / 2的计算结果为无符号。该表达式旨在表示从中间那条线开始的第n条射线的符号位置:从左边那条线开始的第1条射线的位置为-1，右边那条线的位置为+1，等等。在取abs值并乘以角之后，我将得到第n条射线与中间那条射线之间的夹角。

不幸的是，对我来说，上面的表达式包含了邪恶的unsigned，它的计算结果不是-1，而是2^32-1。随后转换为双密封的bug。

由于滥用无符号算术而导致的一两个错误之后，人们不得不开始考虑获得的额外比特是否值得额外的麻烦。我正在尽可能地避免在算术中使用无符号类型，尽管仍然将它用于非算术操作，如二进制掩码。

http://skeletoncoder.blogspot.com/2006/09/java-tutorials-why-no-unsigned.html

这个家伙说，因为C标准定义了包含无符号整型和有符号整型的操作被视为无符号整型。这可能导致负符号整数滚动到一个大的无符号整数，可能会导致错误。