soon I want to look at a simple x+y. But those x+y can have various
types and I don't think that for the case of having int for x and y it
is really good to have a method like this:

static int plus(Integer x, Integer y){return x+y;}

and I wonder further if I should really provide methods for all
combinations of byte, char, int, short even though they are more or less
handled as int in bytecode. Counting all versions I would have some 49
methods.

What do you guys advise to do here?

bye Jochen

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