[e-lang] (fully qualified) names of basic types

[Kevin Reid]

We recently had a discussion on IRC about what the FQNs of the basic  
types such as integer, float, string, etc. should be on E  
implementations that are not Java-based, since it would be  
inappropriate to use java.lang.*. We decided to use  
org.erights.e.elib.atom.*.

Further question: What are the *names* of these two types:

Int or Integer?
Char or Character?

Allen Short and I would prefer the latter options.

[12:49] dash: i'd lean towards the former
[12:50] dash: on reflection "Integer" and "Character" seem better  
choices
[12:50] dash: my first thought was that 'Int' and 'Char' reflect the  
limitations of the C types of the same names
[12:51] dash: char currently shares some of those, integers don't
[12:52] dash: conceivably, future implementations would not have a  
fixed-width restriction for characters either
[12:52] dash: so invoking that resemblance wouldn't be helpful

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>