why a byte cant be assigned to a char?

[karun narang]

can any one tell me why cant we assign a byte to a char? the char is 16 bit and byte is ofcourse 8 bit.why this gives a compiler error.



class a
{
byte b=10;
char c=b;
}

[Ankit Garg]

byte is signed i.e. it can have positive or negative value while char cannot have negative values, that's why a cast is required...

[Lucas Smith]

Loosing of data precision may occur.
char holds only positive values while byte can take negative.

[Prithvi Sehgal]

Character's can't have -ve values where byte is signed. That's why.

[karun narang]

thank you all!