Type Conversion in Assignment Context

[ragi singh]

Hi all ,
Extract from Khaled Mughal:-
Implicit Narrowing conversions can occur when :-
1. The source is a constant expression of either byte,short,char or int .
2. The target type is either byte, short or char .
3. The value of the source is determined to be in the range of the target type at compile time .

Now in accordance to the above rules:-
int i2=-20; (1)
final int i3=i2; (2)
final int i4=200; (3)
short s3=(short) i2; (4)
char c3=(char) i3; (5)

(4) gives compiler error . I cant understand why ?

[Sridhar Santhanakrishnan]

Funny but I dont get an error.

[bhanu chowdary]

ragi singh wrote:
int i2=-20; (1)
final int i3=i2; (2)
final int i4=200; (3)
short s3=(short) i2; (4)
char c3=(char) i3; (5)

(4) gives compiler error . I cant understand why ?

Ragi, do you mean to ask without the explicit cast why is it failing?? because the above code compiles fine with the cast in place?

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

Please correct the indicated error in your question. And have a look on the JLS.