Scott Moore wrote:
Wide strings, wide sets, ability to read and write wide characters and probably also utf-8 to and from files.
To me it well illustrates the fallacy of using C as an example for new extensions. Pascal is not C, and has fundamentally different aims.
Could you be more explicit here? Do you think that we should have a single char type? If yes, then would you limit that type to 8 bits (or maybe 16)?