Prepitch: Character integer literals

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I can't say that I'm against it, especially now that it's been fleshed out a bit more with the other types you gave examples of. :slightly_smiling_face:

My initial hesitation was to the Character type specifically being treated differently from other strings or scalars, but I think if we partitioned the various types by their cardinality and said:

  • Single quotes represent literals that can be treated as a single ASCII code unit, UTF-16 code unit, Unicode.Scalar, (edit: or Character), depending on the type it's being coerced to
  • Double quotes represent literals that contain may only be coerced to types that support multiple characters

...then we'd be telling a consistent and compelling story.

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