Can we use the Long data type for a short Value?

Question

Eg:long a=2;
Is it correct??

Answer 1

Yes, because the size of long data type is bigger than short.

Answer 2

The best practices is to use L or l with numbers when asdiging to long daya type.

ex:

long a = 2L;

Here no casting.

Answer 3

ok thanks..It means that long data types' values need casting...Correct

Answer 4

As Mazen said, it need L or l with the number.

Answer 5

See this post, hope this help

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14699067/why-is-the-default-type-of-java-integer-literals-int-instead-of-long