# What happened to the primitive "short"?

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-happened-to-the-primitive-short/39332
**Category:** Beginners
**Created:** [October 18, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-happened-to-the-primitive-short/39332 "2022-10-18T00:20:52Z")
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### Author: ![echamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9adbd/32.png) [@echamp](https://discourse.processing.org/u/echamp)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-happened-to-the-primitive-short/39332/1 "2022-10-18T00:20:52Z")

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Just curious why the primitive “short” isn’t being shown in any of the references, but does work in the Processing editor? Noticed it is documented in the Learning Processing book. Thank in advance!

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### Author: ![GoToLoop](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/gotoloop/32/86_2.png) [@GoToLoop](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GoToLoop)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-happened-to-the-primitive-short/39332/2 "2022-10-18T00:39:31Z")

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Among Java’s 8 primitive datatypes, `short` is the least supported by Processing’s API. 😢

Obviously b/c Processing is still Java, we can still use `short` if we wanna. 😈