It's a spectacularly terrible idea. I'm not exaggerating--it's a really, really, really, really bad and obfuscatory way of doing something that is trivial and straightforward to do otherwise. The ...

Java’s String class encapsulates an array of bytes. A byte can be converted to a char, in which case, String becomes an array of characters used to compose words, sentences, or any other data you want ...

In several years of developing, reading, reviewing, and maintaining hundreds of thousands of lines of Java code, I have become accustomed to seeing certain “red flags” in Java code that often (but ...